Twitter admitted that it reset more passwords than it should have. After an unknown website or online service compromised some accounts, Twitter users received an email notification asking them to choose new passwords.
Something different happened with Twitter earlier in the week. Skype is committed to providing a safe and secure communications experience to our users, and we apologize for the inconvenience." "We are reaching out to a small number of users who may have been impacted to assist as necessary. "This issue affected some users where multiple Skype accounts were registered to the same email address," Skype said in a statement on its website.
Skype claims only a small number of users were affected. It now assures users that it is working properly. In response, Skype, which is now owned by Microsoft, first disabled the password reset feature this morning. The typical security roadblocks between getting into an account weren't in place it didn't ask a user to confirm an email address with an email or answer a security question. Discovered by Russian hackers and first reported by the tech site the Next Web, all that was needed to get into a Skype account was a Skype user name and the associated email address. Only a few days after Twitter reset a number of passwords because of a security breach, Skype also has had a password security problem.Įarly this morning it was found that Skype's password reset tool had been compromised. 14, 2012 — - It's not a good week for password security.
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