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Twitter: Passwords Leaked for Millions of Accounts

Social media service notifies users of threat after database with usernames, passwords leaked

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Twitter Inc. has notified millions of users that their accounts are at risk of being taken over after a database containing nearly 33 million purported usernames and passwords for the social-blogging service was made public Wednesday.

The database is the latest in a string of leaks in the past month affecting users of LinkedIn Corp., Myspace and several Russian-language sites. The website that published the Twitter passwords,...

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