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Twitter Inc. has advised users to change passwords following a discovery of a bug in its system that exposed passwords in plain text internally. The shares of the social media company dropped as much as 2.7% hours after the bug disclosure. The stock closed at $30.67 earlier in New York. The company has informed that it has removed the non-encrypted passwords from the system and working actively to prevent any such issue from rehappening. The top executive in the company said “out of an abundance of caution” users should consider changing their passwords.   We recently found a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log. We fixed the bug and have no indication of a breach or misuse by anyone. As a precaution, consider changing your password on all services wher...