Les tweets privés envoyés par les utilisateurs de l'application Android de Twitter auraient pu être exposés publiquement pendant des années. Twitter a déclaré avoir découvert une faille de sécurité qui signifie que les tweets "protégés" sont devenus publics lorsque des modifications ont été apportées aux comptes. Anyone who updated the email address linked to their account between November 2014 and January 2019 could have had messages exposed, it said. Twitter said it had started to let affected users know about the bug. It added that it had turned the protections back on for Android users who had inadvertently switched them off. Twitter said it was also issuing a public notice about the error because it could not confirm the exact number of accounts that had been affected and wanted to reach those it could not identify by an internal investigation. "We're very sorry this happened and we're conducting a full review to help prevent this from happening again," it said. It encouraged users to check their privacy settings to make sure they reflected their preferences. Twitter said it fixed the flaw on 14 January and would share more information if it became available. Anyone who used Twitter via an Apple device or through the web would not have been caught out by the bug. AFP.