Twitter has disclosed affecting the accounts of an unspecified variety of customers who opted to reset their passwords. In accordance with the corporate, a “bug” launched someday within the final yr prevented Twitter customers from being logged out of their accounts on all of their gadgets after initiating a password reset.

“when you proactively modified your password on one gadget, however nonetheless had an open session on one other gadget, that session could not have been closed,” Twitter explains in a quick weblog submit. “Internet periods weren’t affected and had been closed appropriately.”

Twitter says it’s “proactively” logging some customers out because of the bug. The corporate attributed the difficulty to “a change to the techniques that energy password resets” that occurred sooner or later in 2021. A Twitter spokesperson declined to elaborate on when this variation was made or precisely what number of customers are affected. “I can share that for most individuals, this would not have led to any hurt or account compromise,” the spokesperson mentioned. 

Whereas Twitter states that “most individuals” wouldn’t have had their accounts compromised in consequence, the information may very well be worrying for individuals who have used shared gadgets, or handled a misplaced or stolen gadget within the final yr.

Notably, Twitter’s disclosure of the incident comes as the corporate is reeling from allegations from its former head of safety who had filed a whistleblower grievance accusing the corporate of safety practices. Twitter has thus far to deal with the claims intimately, citing its ongoing with Elon Musk. Musk the whistleblower allegations in his authorized case to get out of his $44 billion deal to purchase Twitter.