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Slack, one of many best messaging apps, is emailing a few of its customers and asking them to alter their passwords. In keeping with Android Police, that is legit and never a rip-off or phishing try. They contacted the corporate concerning the e-mail and it seems Slack has logged some customers’ login data in plain textual content, making it seen on their smartphones. Due to this, Slack is asking some customers to alter their passwords.
We’re taking this step as a precaution as a consequence of an error that we found and there’s no proof of any unauthorized or third-party entry to this account…On December twentieth, 2020, Slack launched a bug that brought on some variations of our Android app to log clear textual content consumer credentials to their machine. Slack recognized the difficulty on January twentieth, 2021, and glued it on January twenty first, 2021.
Along with altering your password, Slack is asking customers to wipe their app information. To do that you may observe our information on how to clear your app cache or data on Android. After this, you will have to log again in.
Slack maintains that your accounts needs to be protected and that the app replace has mounted the difficulty, disabling any affected variations of the app. The difficulty ought to solely have an effect on customers of the Android app, leaving iOS customers protected.
This is not the primary time Slack had some user-facing errors with its service. A number of weeks in the past, Slack faced an outage that rendered the service largely ineffective on the primary workday of the 12 months.
