The news that websites, apps, or online services getting hacked or user passwords being leaked really isn’t news anymore considering the frequency it happens. The latest service to urge you to change your passwords immediately is Twitter. Due to a bug discovered during an internal audit, the company found a bug that stored unmasked user passwords in an internal log.
For those not password savvy, there are a number of methods to encrypt and secure passwords. When passwords are stored unmasked, or in plain text, anyone who has access to that file can see the password of every user contained within it. While Twitter uses a hashing (masking) function for user passwords, as they should, in this case, passwords were being stored internally unmasked.
We mask passwords through a process called…
