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Facebook parent Meta is warning 1 million users that their login information may have been compromised through malicious apps.<\/p>\n
Meta\u2019s researchers found more than 400 malicious Android and Apple iOS apps this year that were designed to steal the personal Facebook login information of its users, the company said Friday in a blog post. Meta spokesperson Gabby Curtis confirmed that Meta is warning 1 million users who may have been affected by the apps.<\/p>\n
Meta said the apps they identified were listed in Apple\u2019s app store and Google Play Store as games, photo editors, health and lifestyle services and other types of apps to trick people into downloading them. Often the malicious app would ask users to \u201clogin with Facebook\u201d and later steal their username and password, according to the company.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a highly adversarial space and while our industry peers work to detect and remove malicious software, some of these apps evade detection and make it onto legitimate app stores,\u201d wrote Meta\u2019s Threat Disruption Director David Agranovich, and Malware Discovery and Detection Engineer Ryan Victory.<\/p>\n
Meta said it reported the apps to Apple and Google and the apps had since been taken down. Google spokesperson Edward Fernandez said in a statement that the \u201capps identified in the report are no longer available on Google Play.\u201d A representative for Apple responded but didn\u2019t comment.<\/p>\n
Meta has faced scrutiny over its privacy practices for years. In 2019, the Federal Trade Commission approved a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook after reports found the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed personal data of millions Facebook users.<\/p>\n
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