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    Twitter passwords bared online

    Tue, 05/08/2012 - 21:45 EDT - France24.com - Business
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    Twitter said that it was trying to figure out how user names and passwords from thousands of accounts apparently wound up posted at an online file sharing website.Information posted on Pastebin.com pages appeared to be from about 35,000 Twitter accounts, not counting about 20,000 that seemed to be redundancies, according to a message "tweeted" by the San Francisco firm."We're looking into the situation and have pushed out password resets to potentially affected accounts," Twitter said.

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