Slack is a popular communication app among the working community for its numerous features, which were handy for many offices working from home during the pandemic. However, a new report has suggested that if you have been using the Slack app on Android, it’s a good idea to immediately change your password.
Slack Android users recently began to get emails asking them to change their passwords. Naturally, many people thought of the mail as a phishing scam. However, as per a new report by Android Police, Slack representatives have now confirmed that the mail was in fact, sent from the company.
Slack identified on January 20, 2021 that user passwords on the Android app had been saved in plain text since December 21, 2020. The issue was immediately fixed on January 21, 2021. Between the month-long period until the fix, Slack expects that a small number of Android users’ passwords could have been compromised.
If you too received a mail from Slack recently asking you…