Twitter Goofed Last Night And Made A Lot Of Users Think Their Accounts Had Been Hacked
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Last night, Twitter accidentally sent an email to a lot of users asking them to change their passwords. The email suggested their accounts had been hacked. Twitter now says it messed up and the password changes weren't necessary.
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The email read:
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Most users who received this notification weren't being hacked, TechCrunch reports. Twitter has since issued the following statement, acknowledging the mess-up:
"We unintentionally sent some password reset notices tonight due to a system error. We apologize to the affected users for the inconvenience."
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