Twitter has warned business customers that their data may have been compromised following a security breach on the platform.<\/p>\n
In an email sent to the platform’s business clients which was seen by the BBC<\/strong><\/a>, Twitter said that the billing information of some businesses was stored in the browser cache, which could have resulted in this data being accessed by others.<\/p>\n Data which was exposed through the browser cache included business clients’ email addresses, phone numbers, and the last four digits of their credit card numbers.<\/p>\n While the data listed above was potentially accessible by attackers, Twitter said there was no evidence that billing information was compromised.<\/p>\n Twitter reportedly apologised to clients affected by the data breach, which included businesses that use Twitter’s advertising and analytics platforms.<\/p>\n “We’re very sorry this happened. We recognise and appreciate the trust you place in us, and are committed to earning that trust every day,” Twitter said.<\/p>\n Consumers users are not affected by this data breach.<\/p>\n In an effort to curb the spread of misinformation on its platform, Twitter has made a number of changes to its tweet structure, including encouraging users to read articles before retweeting them<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cSharing an article can spark conversation, so you may want to read it before you Tweet it,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n For now, this prompt will only apply to Twitter users on the Android mobile operating system.<\/p>\n “To help promote informed discussion, we’re testing a new prompt on Android \u2013 when you Retweet an article that you haven’t opened on Twitter, we may ask if you’d like to open it first,” Twitter said.<\/p>\n Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey promoted the feature with his own tweet shortly after the original announcement.<\/p>\n \u201cDid you read the article you\u2019re about to spread?\u201d he asked while retweeting the announcement.<\/p>\n Twitter has warned business customers that their data may have been compromised following a security breach on the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":351831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[65301,26872,405],"class_list":["post-357359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-business-clients","tag-data-breach","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Platform changes<\/h3>\n
Now read: Apple deals major blow to app developers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"