Twitter accused of failure in security policy

Hyderabad: The morning ritual of tweeple in India was altered on Friday, with Twitter urging its users to change their passwords, announcing it had a file with passwords of all users stored in plain text.  Since Twitter did not divulge details on the duration or the exposure of plaintext passwords, and how many users have accessed the file, it is essential to change the password.

Terming this a case of negligence and a failure of security policy, Cyber Peace Foundation president Vineet Kumar said, “it is almost like having all your passwords written down on a piece of paper. Access to those logs could mean access to a lot of Twitter accounts. It is very strange that an organisation like Twitter, which has information and sensitive data about millions of people, overlooked the regular log file generation on their network despite regular security audits."