Twitter on Sunday revealed that it has fixed a rare bug, which has been bothering its users allowing unauthorised users to view tweets from protected accounts.
According to Twitter the bug, which has been in existence since November 2013, affected more than 93,700 protected accounts allowing even non-approved followers to snoop tweets by protected accounts via SMS or push notifications.
Bob Lord, Director, Information Security at Twitter, in a blog post said: “We were alerted to and fixed a bug in our system that, for 93,788 protected accounts under rare circumstances, allowed non-approved followers to receive protected tweets via SMS or push notifications since November 2013.”
“As part of the bug fix, we’ve removed all of these unapproved follows, and taken steps to protect against this kind of bug in the future.”
Twitter said that the scope of the bug was small, the figures speak a different story with nearly 100,000 bug affected accounts. Affected users were sent emails to make them know about the bug with wholehearted apologies, the blog post read.
The bug that was discovered by Twitter’s white hat security community has now been completely fixed and users protected accounts are secure again.
Last week, Twitter faced another error that resulted in a false number of password-reset emails sent out to some of the users for no apparent reason.
