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Facebook Warns That 1 Million Users May Have Had Their Passwords Stolen Via Third Party Apps In Google Play And App Store

A lot of the apps didn’t work very well before signing in with Facebook, and then didn’t work even after signing in

Credit: Mashable/Bob Al-Green

(Mashable) If you downloaded an app in the past year that ended up really not working all that well, there’s a chance that its entire function was to steal your Facebook password.

Meta began notifying at least 1 million Facebook users that their password data may have been compromised via third-party apps downloaded from both the App Store and Google Play. The company published a report on Oct. 7 detailing its findings of more than 400 malicious apps that were “designed to steal Facebook login information and compromise people’s accounts.”

All of these apps are disguised as something that could be useful or entertaining, and Meta found that a large portion of the password-stealing apps paraded as photo editing apps. Other types of malicious apps appeared as VPN services, horoscope apps, fitness trackers, games, and business and ad management apps. Though both the App Store and Google Play hosted these apps, a majority of them appear on Google Play. Of the ones hosted on the App Store, most appear as business-oriented apps.

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