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A comment on Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch'.

Re:Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'g... by djadmin on Thursday May 03, 2018 @04:36PM (#16989701)
Are Github & Twitter using the same logging tools/service? Btw, Happy World Password Day!
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Re:Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'g... by senoroink on Thursday May 03, 2018 @04:59PM (#16989914)
For context: https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-says-bug-exposed-accoun...
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Re:Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'g... by wybiral on Thursday May 03, 2018 @05:07PM (#16989986)
It really makes you wonder how widespread this bad practice is, right?

Hashing doesn't help much when you're logging everything first.

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Re:Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'g... by cschep on Thursday May 03, 2018 @05:34PM (#16990189)
It would make sense at least from an overlap of Ruby best practices situation. They both started on Rails at least. :)
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