Twitter said Wednesday it briefly took down its popular TweetDeck application to view and manage messages because of a security flaw, which prompted some calls to stop using the programme. Some experts said the vulnerability could be exploited by hackers, and reports cited instances of people's TweetDeck accounts hijacked on the Chrome browser. The popular messaging platform said it discovered "a security issue that affected TweetDeck" and temporarily took the service offline, telling users: "Please log out of TweetDeck and log back in to fully apply the fix." After a period of confusion and...
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