Twitter said that it has since fixed the issue, plus the company added that there is no evidence that the passwords have been leaked or misused. Nevertheless, the company is still urging its users to change their passwords as soon as possible.  Twitter usually protects passwords through a process called hashing, which displays random characters in the stead of the actual passwords.  Twitter did not comment on the matter when the bug was discovered, or how long it had been storing passwords in this manner.

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Twitter (TWTR) picked a heck of a day to notify its 336 million members to change their passwords because of a security bug.  Thursday's warning on World Password Day, no less, sent shares reeling in after-hours trading and provoked the kind of privacy fears that have dogged Facebook (FB) for weeks.  In Twitter's case, the scare was temporary.