Once more into the breach with Twitter. A company called LeakedSource claims to have gotten its hands on a database containing some 32 million Twitter passwords associated with accounts via email (rather than user name). Although per the company’s information on the database, most of the passwords come from Russia, it certainly wouldn’t hurt to change your password in light of this news, just in case. If you’ve not heard of them, LeakedSource is a freemium website that allows you to check your login credentials to see if they have been compromised.
The company stresses the fact that it doesn’t appear that Twitter itself was hacked. The passwords appear to have been gleaned from browser history files, courtesy of malware installed on PCs belonging to individual users. Even so, as mentioned, any time something like this happens, it’s not a bad idea to play it safe and give your password an update.
As ever, on the heels of such news, it’s a good time to remind everyone once more that if you’re not using an up-to-date web browser, you should be. If you’re not using some type of password manager to keep your logins secure, you should be, and of course, if you’re using the same password across multiple sites, you shouldn’t be.
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