New York: After we heard the news about almost hackers might have leaked out 32 million Twitter login credentials and sold on dark we.
Twitter today responded and by locking accounts that demand extra protection and requiring a password reset.
Twitter also said in a report that "confident the information was not obtained from a hack of Twitter's servers."
It is not revealed yet how many accounts Twitter has chosen to lock, but the company told the Wall Street Journal the number was in the millions, and that those affected will already receive an e-mail explaining the situation.
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The news of leaked passwords was first provided by LeakedSource, a site with a search engine of leaked login credentials and said that the cache of Twitter data contains 32,888,300 records, including e-mail addresses, usernames and passwords.
LeakedSource noted that "the user credentials were collected by malware infecting browsers like Firefox or Chrome rather than stolen directly from Twitter".
(With IANS inputs)
