Twitter has taken its Tweetdeck app offline after a customer from australia confirmed that he gained access to 100 oher users’ account through the app.
A Tweetdeck representative tweeted,”TweetDeck is currently down while we look into an issue. Apologies for the inconvenience.”
Techcrunch contacted with the person who found this bug. He told to Tehcrunch,”I’m a tweetdeck user. A bug has given me access to hundreds of twitter and facebooks account through tweetdeck. I didn’t do anything special to make this happen. I just logged in one day, the account was was slower than normal, and I could post from many more accounts.”
After 8 hours of downtime, Tweetdeck is back again and working.
Twitter confirmed,
“As soon as we learned about the issue today, we took TweetDeck down to diagnose the situation. We discovered a bug that caused a very small number of TweetDeck users to have access to other TweetDeck users’ accounts. (The accounts that could be accessed were random; it was not possible to select specific accounts and access them.)
No one’s password was compromised, and we aren’t aware of any instances where this access was used maliciously. As a precaution, we removed account credentials associated with affected TweetDeck users; they will need to log in to authorize the TweetDeck application to access their accounts.”
