Twitter Urges Millions Of Its Android Users To Update The App Immediately

If you are one of those Android users who would like to spend much time updating news on Twitter, you might want to update the app immediately. Twitter has just announced a bug in its app that may ley bad actors access your nonpublic private information on the site. That is not all, the hackers can also send messages and tweets as you.

As stated by a blog post on Twitter Privacy Center, the vulnerability can allow hackers to gain control over an account and steal information including protected tweets and location. This bug threatens the safety of millions of users worldwide. A patch has been released for Android 7.93.4 and 8.18.

This is why you should update the app immediately if you are Android users. Users of iOS seem to be immune to this vulnerability so they are safe, for now.

The blog post of Twitter also shared that the company had not yet found any evidence of the vulnerability being exploited. However, it could not be 100% sure that no hacker has found out about this bug before the company had time to patch it. It had sent warnings and instructions to users who have the highest potential of being affected, urging them to update the app.

This bug is not like the one a hacker exploited to attacked the account of Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey in August.

The scandal in August started with Jack Dorsey’s account sending out-of-character tweets with the name of the hacking group.

The tweets also included a bomb threat, the hackers’ Discord chat server’s link, and a claim that the Nazis did nothing wrong. This is just the latest in a series of vulnerabilities that Twitter and Android users face and it is definitely embarrassing for a company like Twitter to be repeatedly hacked.