Twitter announced on Wednesday that a security flaw had been discovered on its Android application, Presse-Citron reports . This vulnerability notably gave access to the private messages of its users.
If malware was installed on the same device, the flaw made it possible to bypass the operating system's authorization mechanism that is supposed to protect these messages. This flaw has since been corrected.
No hacker would have exploited the flaw
Only users running Android 8 (Oreo) and Android 9 (Pie) were affected. An update correcting the flaw is now available for these two versions of the OS. On its blog, Twitter specifies that "96% of Twitter for Android users have already installed an Android security patch that protects them against this vulnerability."
For the remaining 4%, the flaw could allow a hacker to access private data. "We have no evidence indicating that this flaw has been exploited by hackers", however, specifies the social network. Four measures have been taken "to ensure the safety of the small group of potentially vulnerable users," said Twitter.
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