It has been seen from tweets that various people are being forced to change their passwords on Twitter in response to possible phishing threats.
The message from twitter itself says:
“Due to concern that your account may have been compromised in a phishing attack that took place off-Twitter, your password was reset.”
There have been a number of cases where phishers have targeted user accounts via DM sending them to a spoof login page that grabs passwords and then uses your account to propagate the phishing messages to more users.
In this case, it appears Twitter itself wants to be one step ahead of potential phishers and is asking people that it believes may have been a target to change their passwords immediately.
The screenshot below shows that it’s possible,that they may have gained access to users via NutshellMail, a service that lets you access and reply to Twitter messages as you would email.
Here is the screenshot:
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