Twitter has just announced that the reason for the recent password shuffling comes from torrent related websites. Someone for a long period of time was “creating torrent sites that require a login and password as well as creating forums set up for torrent site usage and then selling these purportedly well-crafted sites and forums to other people innocently looking to start a download site of their very own.”
Twitter goes on to say that “however, these sites came with a little extra — security exploits and backdoors throughout the system.”
That began the problem, with hundreds of people being asked to reset their password after their accounts were possibly compromised.