Twitter forces huge number of its millions users to reset their passwords

Twitter alleged that it wrongly reset the passwords of huge number of its more than 140 million active users while accomplishing routine security screening to recognize accounts that may have been give and take.

Thursday's mix-up triggered warnings on technology blogs and in tweets that the online messaging service had been attacked by computer hackers. Which was wrong and ression is different. Despite the mistake, Twitter says only a very little percentage of its more than 140 million users had their passwords pretentious. The company used the mass email as an prospect to remind users of some key security tips to keep away from hacking in the future.

Twitter wanted to clear up the puzzlement with a post on its website a few hours after it sent out emails alerting some users that their accounts had been compromised. Twitter says its security professional had reset a larger number of passwords than they intended.

In order to avoid such scams, users were recommendation to make sure that the proper Twitter website, twitter.com, was able to be seen in the web browser bar instead of a similar alternative. 

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