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Malware on your Android device picked up from third party app stores (FDroid? Amazon?) that steals email accounts and auth tokens. Looks like it only works on the older Android 4 Jellybean software (and some Android 5 Lollipop) and below, so mostly concentrated in Asia where there are lower-end phones. You can see if your account has been affected here: https://gooligan.checkpoint.com/
well ok then.
In that case, I suppose the title might be technically correct (those accounts are indeed breached), but it makes it sound like Google is to blame.
So wait this is phishing, not actually hacking into Google to breach accounts if I understood it correctly? In that case, I suppose the title might be technically correct (those accounts are indeed breached), but it makes it sound like Google is to blame.
Malware on your Android device picked up from third party app stores (FDroid? Amazon?) that steals email accounts and auth tokens. Looks like it only works on the older Android 4 Jellybean software (and some Android 5 Lollipop) and below, so mostly concentrated in Asia where there are lower-end phones. You can see if your account has been affected here: https://gooligan.checkpoint.com/
They say that, but then Google's G+ post[1] says "These apps are most often downloaded outside of Google Play"
You could read "most often" as "some of these were downloaded from Google Play".
Either way, they are exploiting known vulnerabilities. The big issue to me is that phone manufacturers / carriers, by choice, stop patching phones whenever they please.
Does anyone else use a special account for their Android phone that they don't use for anything else?
So wait this is phishing, not actually hacking into Google to breach accounts if I understood it correctly? In that case, I suppose the title might be technically correct (those accounts are indeed breached), but it makes it sound like Google is to blame.
Does anyone else use a special account for their Android phone that they don't use for anything else?
Yes. It never occurred to me to connect my portable devices to any accounts that mattered. Who does that?
Does anyone else use a special account for their Android phone that they don't use for anything else?
Yes. It never occurred to me to connect my portable devices to any accounts that mattered. Who does that?