Twitter has been storing your password safely in its database – but not in its logs, where it’s been writing plaintext passwords by mistake.
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Twitter sold user data to Cambridge Analytica’s Aleksandr Kogan
The admission is part of an effort to explain how unlike Facebook Twitter is.
Ex-Reddit mogul apologizes for making the world ‘a worse place’
“[Reddit] is awful and it’s gonna get worse.”
Death SWAT suspect tweets threats from jail using buggy inmate kiosk
He apparently got online when a jail kiosk software upgrade glitched. Alternatively, as his account explained it, because “I’m an eGod.”
Facebook and Twitter may be forced to identify bots
If passed, the bill would give platforms 72 hours to investigate reports of bots seeking to mislead Californians and to remove or disclose them.
YouTube employee’s Twitter account hijacked during shooting
In less than an hour after he tweeted from a barricaded room, Vadim Lavrusik’s account was hijacked.
Cryptocurrency clampdown! Twitter bans ICO ads to combat scammers
Twitter is to ban advertisers from pushing Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) or selling tokens on its platform.
Boasting about your binges on Facebook could hurt your credit score
Do you know how many times the word “wasted” shows up in your profiles and posts? Credit analytics companies do. 
Hacker detained for giving US service members’ personal info to ISIS
A hacker detained in Malaysia now faces extradition to the US to face charges that he provided material support to the Islamic State, which US Department of Justice (DOJ) officials are calling a “first of its kind” case.
Snowden joins Twitter, follows the agency that follows everyone else
Edward Snowden signs up for Twitter, promises cat pics and asks about border control on Mars.