45,000 Facebook Users Hit by Ramnit Malware [VIDEO]

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A worm on Facebook targeted the usernames and passwords of Facebook accounts in the United Kingdom, France and other parts of the world. In all, 45,000 accounts were compromised, according to Seculert.

Microsoft describes Ramnit as “a multi-component malware family which infects Windows executable as well as HTML files,” “stealing sensitive information such as stored FTP credentials and browser cookies.”

One report says, of the 45,000 recently stolen log-ins, only half of were invalid or expired.