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Facebook password reset after installing ping.fm application
I just got an email from Facebook claiming they had to reset my Facebook account password 'for security reasons'. The email is legit and not a phishing attempt, and comes only a day after I added Facebook support to ping.fm. Any chance installing or using the ping.fm Facebook app caused them to freak out?
It's unclear so far if there's a direct correlation between the two, but I rarely use Facebook for much of anything, and ping.fm was the only recent app I installed. I posed the question to their contact address and will post the response I get from them here.
It's unclear so far if there's a direct correlation between the two, but I rarely use Facebook for much of anything, and ping.fm was the only recent app I installed. I posed the question to their contact address and will post the response I get from them here.
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Inappropriate?Facebook apps have no access to passwords or other sensitive information. The only information we store is a session id that allows us to set status whilst you aren't logged into Facebook. We don't even require you input your login credentials to use the application.
I would take this up with them as I am 100% sure it has nothing to do with our application.
I’m confident
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Inappropriate?Word back from Facebook was a suggestion that I had fallen prey to a phishing attempt elsewhere and that my account was reset as a precaution. That sounded bogus to me, since I hardly use their site, and am always cautious about the URLs I type my login details into (in fact, I use a password manager most of the time, that's smart enough to know it for me), so perhaps I simply got caught in a wider net they cast of people potentially affected.
Either way, they made no reference to ping.fm, and, timing aside, I have no reason to suspect you guys. Let's assume that ping.fm was not related at all.
I’m unconcerned
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