Internet related News · 2015-07-10

Over half a mln FB user names & passwords stolen by Android game

If you have played an Android game called Cowboy Adventure & used your Facebook login to register, well, you could be one of those who just got…err….”screwed”. Online reports coming in say that over half a million people who had downloaded the game have had their Facebook usernames & passwords stolen.
As for Cowboy Adventure itself, well, the game just got pulled out of the app store for Android phones, Google Play. But it was already been downloaded anywhere from 500,000 to 1 million times before that.
Anyone who has downloaded these games should change their Facebook password immediately.
We bring you reports related to this Online theft & also how FB has been testing a mechanism to stop such thefts.

Popular Android game stole Facebook logins – fox8.com

http://news.google.com Jul 9, 2015 

More than half a million people downloaded an Android game that stole their Facebook usernames and passwords, according to researchers. It was called “Cowboy Adventure,” and it just got pulled …

 

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Facebook logins stolen by popular Android game – Las Vegas Review-Journal

http://news.google.com Jul 10, 2015 

More than half a million people downloaded an Android game that stole their Facebook usernames and passwords, according to researchers. It was called “Cowboy …

 

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Facebook is testing a new tool to lock down user logins – The Verge

http://news.google.com May 27, 2015 

Login alerts will send you an email any time there’s a new login, while device management can show you every device that’s accessed your account. You can find versions of …

 

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