What new malware hacked 45,000 facebook accounts early in january 2012?

In 2012, the Ramnit worm hacked about 45,000 facebook accounts. This Ramnit was describes as “a multi-component malware family which infects Windows executable as well as HTML files” (quoted from Microsoft Malware Protection Center). It hacked these accounts stealing the login credentials (the user name and the password).

As reported by facebook, most of the stolen accounts were in the UK and in France.