Twitter Says Passwords Compromised; Stirred Thousands to Reset

According to Daily Mail, while Twitter was conducting an investigation and evaluation of 140 million accounts for possible compromised, they mistakenly reset passwords of thousands.

Word from Twitter said their specialist accidentally reset accounts that are not included in the compromised section. As a result, warnings have been sent to different technology blogs creating chaos among Twitter users.

"In instances when we believe an account may have been compromised, we reset the password and send an email letting the account owner know this has happened," Twitter said.

"In this case, we unintentionally reset passwords of a larger number of accounts, beyond those that we believed to have been compromised."

However, Twitter Spokesman Carolyn Penner declined to give comments on the actual number of accounts that are affected by the compromise.

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