Twitter ‘bug’ leads to all 330m members being asked to change passwords

Twitter is asking all 330 million of its members to change their passwords after a ‘bug’ saw login details stored as readable text on an internal computer system rather than being properly encrypted.
The lapse is understood to have affected a ‘substantial’ number of users, leaving their logins unprotected for ‘several months’ before the company became aware of the issue several weeks ago.
Conceding that it had dropped the ball the social network held its