Twitter confirms stolen passwords are real, warns affected users

The recently leaked database containing nearly 33 million Twitter login credentials, including passwords in plain text, is definitely the real deal.

In a blog post Friday, Twitter confirmed it started warning users whose accounts may have been affected, as well as locking some accounts and sending a password reset request to the account owners. 

Twitter maintains the stolen passwords were not the result of a hack, but have rather been "amassed from combining information from other recent breaches, malware on victim machines that are stealing passwords for all sites, or a combination of both." Read more...