Approximately 250,000 Twitter account passwords have been compromised by hackers, Twitter said in a blog today, noting that the company is now among the "recent uptick large-scale security attacks for technology and US media companies", including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
Twitter has already taken action on the compromised accounts, requiring a password reset before any handle hacked can be accessed again. All undercover accounts also received email alerts, so check your inbox just to be sure.
If all this sounds familiar, we went through a similar exercise before. On 8 November 2012, Twitter mistakenly asked a "large number of accounts" to reset their passwords after discovering a small group of accounts at risk of being compromised.
Although the number of affected Twitter handles accounts for less than 0.125 percent of the 0 million tweeters active service, the number represents the largest Twitter data compromise to date. Despite this, the attack pales in comparison to the security breach of LinkedIn in June of last year, when 6.4 million passwords were stolen.
Twitter to take this opportunity to remind the other 99.9 percent of its users to ensure their passwords are strong, with "at least 10 (but more is better) and characters a mixture of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. - you do not use for any other accounts or sites, "
He also recommends using different passwords for each site you frequent, Twitter password should be different from, for example, your Gmail or Facebook password.
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