Twitter has revealed that a software bug leaked a number of private messages to third parties for more than a year.
While Twitter has not revealed how many messages were leaked, it says that less than one per cent of users were affected.
However, considering the site has 335 million users, this is still a significant number.
Direct messages affected included those between users and businesses that offer customer services via Twitter.
Twitter said: “The issue has persisted since May 2017.”
Thankfully the issue has now been resolved.
How to see if your DMs were affected
Twitter has contacted users who were affected by the bug.
The firm said: “We haven’t found an instance where data was sent to the incorrect party.
"But we can’t conclusively confirm it didn’t happen, so we’re telling potentially impacted people about the bug.
"If you were potentially involved, we’ll contact you today. We’re sorry that this happened."
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