Nothing is safe especially when adequate measures are not taken to secure them. According to a report from BBC twitter suffer a password leak.

The report has it that Twitter’s 330 million users are being urged to change their passwords after some were exposed in plain text on its internal network.

An error in the way the passwords were handled meant some were stored in easily readable form, said Twitter.

The passwords should have been put through a procedure called “hashing” making them very difficult to read.

Security experts said the way Twitter handled the potential breach was “encouraging”.

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