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I got the Bugdroid hat last night on CodeGolf.SE. The thing is, I never used (or even downloaded) the Android app.

Did this happen to anyone else, or should I be worried that my account got hacked (in which case, why would anyone use the app then)? As far as I can tell, there wasn't any activity on my account at all in the relevant time frame.

If I'm the only one this happened to, could a dev look into which particular activity caused the hat to be given out?

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  • You can always go to the web page of your OpenID provider (for SE it is openid.stackexchange.com/user) to see when someone logged on. That way you could check whether someone else logged on on your account.
    – ProgramFOX
    Dec 18, 2014 at 10:13
  • @ProgramFOX Thanks, good idea. It doesn't look like there were any other logins. Dec 18, 2014 at 10:15
  • The apps use the Stack Exchange API. Have you used any other application that uses the API, or the API itself? I don't know how the server marks API requests as coming from the Android app, but it is theoretically possible that an API access in your name was incorrectly detected as being an app request. Dec 18, 2014 at 10:29
  • @MartijnPieters We've got a few Stack Snippets on code golf which use the API to generate leaderboards, but I don't think I used on of them last night (and even then, it would only have been a read access). Dec 18, 2014 at 10:31

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You don't have to worry, your account is under your sole control. Unfortunately when creating the query to find out who deserves a hat, I thought we recorded which app was used to create a comment, but we do in fact record which app last touched the comment. And in your case, a comment that you had posted was later deleted by a moderator (because it no longer applied), and that moderator was using the Android app.

I'm deploying a fix right now that prevents these cases from causing a hat award in the future, but unless you insist on it I'm not going to take the accidentally awarded hat away from you.

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  • Hah, I actually noticed that said mod removed said comment. :D Thanks for clearing this up (and letting me keep the hat, because my Android version is actually too old to install the app ;)). Dec 18, 2014 at 10:44
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    @MartinBüttner: I don't have an android device at all yet I have the hat. (hint: modern PCs are perfectly capable of emulating other things). :-) Dec 18, 2014 at 10:47
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    @MartijnPieters - care to recommend a good emulator?
    – Ste
    Dec 18, 2014 at 11:45
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    @Ste: I used Genymotion. Dec 18, 2014 at 11:50
  • @MartijnPieters and for IOS Dec 19, 2014 at 7:10
  • @Ankit: I use an iPhone for that........... Dec 19, 2014 at 7:47

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