{"id":7256,"date":"2018-05-04T11:25:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T01:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=7256"},"modified":"2018-05-04T13:29:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T03:29:30","slug":"twitter-saved-ever-users-unencrypted-password-to-an-unprotected-log-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/twitter-saved-ever-users-unencrypted-password-to-an-unprotected-log-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter saved every users&#8217; unencrypted password to an unprotected log file"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/27125818\/170926160424-twitter-540x304.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The company announced on Thursday it discovered a bug that saved user passwords unprotected on an internal log.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CHANGE.<br \/>\nYOUR.<br \/>\nPASSWORD.<br \/>\nNOW.<\/p>\n<p>Possibly one of the biggest faux-paus I&#8217;ve seen from a tech company this year. It&#8217;s either this or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/joshtaylor\/malcolm-turnbull-says-commbank-losing-the-information-of?utm_term=.wyyJbXP82#.xyb6ylrZd\">CommBank losing a magnetic tape<\/a> with all their customer&#8217;s banking data from 2004 onwards&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/05\/03\/technology\/twitter-password-bug\/index.html\">Twitter says all 336 million users should change their passwords<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The company announced on Thursday it discovered a bug that saved user passwords unprotected on an internal log.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}