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"Update: Buffer has restored all sharing features as of\u00A08pm PST on Saturday. The company blog has full details of how users can reconnect their social media accounts.\r\n\r\n- -\r\n\r\nUsers of Buffer -- the tool that allows you to schedule your social media across timezones -- may need to remove the app after Buffer was hacked today and the service began spreading scam links.\r\n\r\nJoel Gascoigne, founder and CEO of the company posted the news to his Twitter account on Saturday saying that all automatic posts have been halted:\r\nLooks like @buffer has been hacked and there is a nasty scam being posted. We\u2019re pausing all posting and investigating right now. Sorry!\r\n\r\n\u2014 Joel Gascoigne (@joelgascoigne) October 26, 2013\r\nBuffer has revoked its Facebook API keys so new users are not able to authenticate to add the application at all and they have removed it from all users' accounts which means all previous posts will also disappear. It's not clear if they will do the same for Twitter yet.\r\nWe've temporarily disabled our app for Facebook. All previous Buffer posts on FB are hidden for now. We'll update again soon. - Carolyn\r\n\r\n\u2014 Buffer (@buffer) October 26, 2013\r\nThe service started flooding social networks with\u00A0links to a scam\u00A0about weight loss attributed to the &amp;quot;Garcinia&amp;quot; fruit for all authenticated users of the tool, many of which are large companies.\r\n\r\n\r\nIt appears the issue started a few hours ago with users reporting that scheduled tweets were disappearing from their dashboards or being unable to login to the service. In an email to users of the service, Buffer said &amp;quot;not everyone who has signed up for Buffer has been affected, but you may want to check on your accounts&amp;quot; and confirmed that &amp;quot;no billing or payment information was affected or exposed.&amp;quot;\r\nThe best thing to do while the company fixes the issue is to remove the application from your social media. It's not necessary to change your password as Buffer uses a technology called oAuth which means they never actually had it. Here's how to quickly remove the tool from your social networks:\r\nFacebook:\r\n\r\n\r\n\tVisit the applications page\r\n\tLook for the Buffer application\r\n\tClick the small 'x' on the right of the page\r\n\tClick 'remove' in the dialog that appears and the application will be removed.\r\n\r\nTwitter:\r\n\r\n\tVisit the applications page\r\n\tFind Buffer in the list and click the &amp;quot;Revoke Access&amp;quot; button\r\n\r\nGoogle+:\r\n\r\n\tVisit the applications page\r\n\tMouse over the application, then click the pencil that appears and choose &amp;quot;Disconnect app&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nLinkedIn:\r\n\r\n\tVisit the applications page\r\n\tTick Buffer, then click Remove\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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