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50M android phones affected

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Heartbleed-50m-android-phones-may-be-affected-report-shows-9263155. Devices running Android 4.1.1, a version of its Jelly Bean software released in 2012, are at risk, according to an announcement made by Google.

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The number of users that could be affected, calculated by the analytics company Chitika and revealed to the Guardian, is a reasonably significant decrease in previous estimates which suggested hundreds of millions of mobiles could have been affected by Heartbleed. Phones affected by the security flaw could see their browsers harvested for data including login information.