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- Slack notified users who accessed the chat service on Android between December 21st and January 20th that they should immediately change their account passwords.
- A bug in the app exposed the password in plain sight, and other apps could have accessed it.
- While Slack wasn’t hacked, and the risk might be only theoretical, it’s still a good idea to change the password.
Slack is one of the most popular chat apps for work out there, and that happened well before the novel coronavirus pandemic forced millions of people to work from home. Salesforce's announcement in early December that it paid $27.7 billion for the app further confirms the importance of Slack in the workplace. But it turns out something else started happening on Slack in mid-December, lasting for about a month. The Android version of the app stored login credentials in plain sight, which is the kind of security risk that could expose your Slack password to any other app on the device. While there’s no indication that anyone abused the bug, which is now fixed, there’s still a theoretical risk that someone could access your Slack data. That’s why you should change your password for Slack immediately. And if you happen to recycle user/password combinations, you should change passwords to all the services that share the same credentials.
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Slack users with Android phones need to change their passwords immediately originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 07:31:18 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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