In a surprising move, LevelUp is cutting its ties to Facebook, citing security concerns. The mobile payments service sent an email yesterday to all users that signed up with LevelUp via Facebook telling them they must reset their passwords. The text of the email is below: LevelUp is removing the ability to register or log in with Facebook. While you can still post to Facebook from within LevelUp if you’d like, you’ll no longer be able to use Facebook to log in. After careful evaluation, we’ve decided to make this change in order to strengthen LevelUp’s overall security architecture. It looks like you originally registered for LevelUp via Facebook Connect which means you might not remember your LevelUp password. To make sure that you can always log in to LevelUp, please click the button below to reset and select a new password. It is not clear by what date the password reset must be done, but it seems LevelUp has already removed the “Log in with Facebook” option from its smartphone apps. It is still possible to join LevelUp via Facebook on LevelUp’s website, however, as you can see at left. But since LevelUp is used almost entirely on mobile, that [...]
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