From InfoWorld: Twitter has notified 10,000 users that their email addresses and phone numbers may have been exposed due to a bug in the website's password recovery feature.
The incident happened over the course of 24 hours on an unspecified day last week, but the company alerted affected users on Wednesday.
"Any user that we find to have exploited the bug to access another account’s information will be permanently suspended, and we will also be engaging law enforcement as appropriate so they may conduct a thorough investigation and bring charges as warranted," Twitter said in a blog post.
It's not uncommon for website features to be abused to expose users' identifying information, such as email addresses and phone numbers. In 2012, Facebook imposed a limit on phone number searches through its mobile website, because a security hole could have allowed attackers to search through phone numbers sequentially and match them to existing users.
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