Worldwide, 300 million users are in the short message service Twitter is active, as it is called. Information about you may have fallen into unauthorized hands, the US operator now.
Twitter has acknowledged the problems with data security. Possibly data had been used since 2018, without the consent of the user for personalized advertising, told the American-short message service.
Background problems with the so-called user-settings, so Twitter be. Therefore, the user information may be shared with advertising partners or advertising on the Basis of unlawfully collected data is displayed. It is believed that country codes show Connections to promotional and conclusions on the devices used.
With advertising a lot of money: the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco
You have discovered the problem recently and already on Monday fixed, assured the Californian company. Which users might be affected, is still unclear.
Twitter apologized for the mishap and announced at the same time, measures to avoid such errors in the future.
wa/ust (rtr, twitter.com)