Twitter users advised to delete private messages to lower risk of data leak
Twitter users should delete their direct messages now to lower the risk of confidential data leaking, according to a security expert.
Twitter has fired thousands of engineers and seen the departure of several senior executives overseeing security and safety issues. That, coupled with Elon Musk’s desire to rip out huge chunks of the Twitter codebase, is leaving Twitter users exposed to a “worrying” degree of risk, according to Graham Cluley, an independent security analyst who has previously worked for Sophos and other security firms.
Cluley says Twitter accidentally deactivating SMS-based two-factor authentication earlier this week is a sign of the chaos within the company.
“There’s not anything I can do to make a chaotic Twitter safer. But I can reduce the potential risk to me, by deleting my DMs.” DMs are much more likely to contain sensitive information that users wouldn’t want made public. Although there’s no way to delete all of your DMs in one go, other than deleting your account altogether, individual conversations can be deleted one at a time, by clicking the three dots menu next to each conversation in the Twitter web interface.
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