Twitter is logging out some customers following password reset ‘incident’

Twitter has disclosed affecting the accounts of an unspecified variety of customers who opted to reset their passwords. In line with the corporate, a “bug” launched someday within the final 12 months prevented Twitter customers from being logged out of their accounts on all of their units after initiating a password reset.

“in case you proactively modified your password on one gadget, however nonetheless had an open session on one other gadget, that session might not have been closed,” Twitter explains in a short weblog submit. “Internet classes weren’t affected and had been closed appropriately.”

Twitter says it’s “proactively” logging some customers out on account of the bug. The corporate attributed the difficulty to “a change to the programs that energy password resets” that occurred sooner or later in 2021. A Twitter spokesperson declined to elaborate on when this modification was made or precisely what number of customers are affected. “I can share that for most individuals, this would not have led to any hurt or account compromise,” the spokesperson stated. 

Whereas Twitter states that “most individuals” wouldn’t have had their accounts compromised because of this, the information may very well be worrying for many who have used shared units, or handled a misplaced or stolen gadget within the final 12 months.

Notably, Twitter’s disclosure of the incident comes as the corporate is reeling from allegations from its former head of safety who had filed a whistleblower criticism accusing the corporate of safety practices. Twitter has up to now to handle the claims intimately, citing its ongoing with Elon Musk. Musk the whistleblower allegations in his authorized case to get out of his $44 billion deal to purchase Twitter.