Twitter has had a rough go on the security front lately, with some serious high-profile accounts getting hacked and now a discovered vulnerability affecting the Twitter for Android app. Yikes.
Twitter for Android security
Twitter hasn't disclosed exactly what the vulnerability does, but they did specify what could happen.
Essentially, other apps installed on your device could maliciously access data from the Twitter app on your phone. Worst case scenario this could end up snooping through your DMs all because of some other app that you had installed.
There's good news, though. Twitter doesn't seem to think that any attackers managed to actually exploit this since most Android devices (around 96%) have a patch from Google that fixed the problem, but they've updated the app anyway. The latest version of the app has some extra security beyond what's in the base OS, and you'll be required to pick up that update soon.
If you're in the 4% that didn't receive an Android security patch to fix the problem, you'll get a notification from Twitter letting you know that you could have been vulnerable. This doesn't necessarily mean that anything happened on your device, however, so don't panic.
If you haven't updated your Twitter app, I'd go ahead and do that right now.
