After the news yesterday of this security flaw rooted Android, Smartphone the Champ informs a new bug in Google Wallet, which compromises the security of all users.
Anyone who comes into possession of an Android smartphone, running a reset for the Google Wallet, you can delete all data recorded in the application. Google Wallet is proposed reopening the initial setup of the application for the generation of PIN and connecting to your Google. The real problem is right now, the prepaid card is registered to hardware and not to your Google, allowing you to assign the prepaid card and offering previously recorded in this way the attacker can use the credit on this preparation paper.
Google queried on the matter immediately said that the development team is already working on a fix that will be released soon, in the meantime, encourages all users who use the service to protect your phone with a code lock to prevent use misuse by unauthorized parties.
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