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Android users should refrain from certain apps

Security researchers have discovered 100+ more apps that fail to encrypt your login data properly, making it easy for hackers to steal your password. As a result, the vast majority of the app makers are not doing anything about it.

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Security researchers have discovered 100+ more apps that fail to encrypt your login data properly, making it easy for hackers to steal your password. As a result, the vast majority of the app makers are not doing anything about it.

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The specific issue, an HTTPS vulnerability, is hardly a new problem. Its been known that Android apps are susceptible to this issue, and that it puts users' private information in jeopardy. What you might not know is that the list of affected apps includes include popular services like Match.com, NBA Game Time, Safeway, and-get ready-Pizza Hut. So if you've been ordering delicious hot dog pizza crust pizza from the Hut with your phone, you should change your password right now. You should also probably stop using these apps until you know they've been fixed.

It's not all Android apps that have this vulnerability. Security researchers say these apps have been downloaded over 200 million times so that's 200 million opportunities for hackers to steal passwords but that's not a lot in the grand scheme of things.

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