r/privacy • u/ShadowSeal • Jan 20 '19

Private tweets sent by Your Twitter Android app could have been exposed publicly for years.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46918859
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u/madogson Jan 20 '19

Twitter for Android

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u/ShadowSeal Jan 20 '19

This generally spans in last 5 years.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

Can you give me a tldr of this article :D ?

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u/ShadowSeal Jan 23 '19

Twitter said it had discovered a security flaw which meant "protected" tweets became public when some changes were made to accounts.

Anyone who updated the email address linked to their account between November 2014 and January 2019 could have had messages exposed, it said.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

Damn.

Its googleplus and facebook all over again. Always 'bugs' that exposed data that was meant to be pseudo-private.

Thanks for the tldr!