Twitter has joined a rapidly growing list of U.S. companies to report a major cybersecurity incident. The social network admitted late last week that it was able to shut down a live attack, butnot before hackers may have beenable to access personal information on 250,000 users.The social network said in a Friday blog post that the usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted versions of passwords may have been taken.After discovering the breach, Twitter said it reset passwords andrevoked session tokens for the compromised accounts. The company notified affected users via email and provided instructions on how to create a new password.Twitter suggested that users who were not affected by the attack should be vigilant about protectingpersonal data online. It reminded users that strong passwords with atleast 10 characters of mixed letters, numbers and symbols, andvarying login credentials for different accounts, can add more layers of protection.Twitter did not respond to our request for further details.
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