Twitter, microblogging site, said the site mistakenly reset a large number of users ' passwords

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Absrtact: November 9 News, according to foreign media reports, microblogging site Twitter said today, the site mistakenly reset a large number of users password. Twitter said the mistake occurred during a routine screening of suspicious accounts. The microblogging service social networking site has more than

November 9 News, according to foreign media reports, microblogging site Twitter said today, the site mistakenly reset a large number of users password.

Twitter said the mistake occurred during a routine screening of suspicious accounts. The microblogging service social networking site has more than 140 million active users.

"When we think an account may have a security risk, the site will follow through to reset the password of the account and send a message to the account owner," Twitter said in a Thursday official microblog. And this time we inadvertently reset a lot of user passwords, many are not subject to security threats. ”

Company spokeswoman Carolyn Carolyn Penner declined to say how many user accounts were affected. She also said there were no security vulnerabilities in the site.

Another big American social networking site, Facebook, is on a temporary outage today, according to media reports. The accident occurred around 2 o'clock in the afternoon Eastern time, the duration is not long, has now returned to normal.

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