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Saturday, January 7, 2012

45000 Facebook passwords stolen by worms, says researchers


According to a group of researchers associated with Security Firm Seculert,a computer worm has stolen more than 45000 login Credentials from Facebook. A Malware also known as Ramnit present around since April 2010 and was previously active in stealing banking details.

The stolen information by the use of  malware is believed to be used to login to victim's facebook account and spread malicious links to their friends. Social network is on the high priority hackers because large amount of Personal Information can be  collected from them.According to the same firm around 800,000 computers or machines are infected with the Ramnit .

Facebook says it has been seriously looking into the issue and been working on ensuring personal  information of the affected users.

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