There has been a massive amount of discussions going on on some of the CCleaner and Windows forums recently about a recent security breach that the company informed users about. A vulnerability was exploited by the hackers in the widely used MOVEit file transfer tool, which is used by thousands of organizations, including CCleaner, as a means to move large sets of sensitive data over the internet to obtain more information.
the hacker was able to gain access to the names and contact information of CCleaner's customers, as well as information about the products they had purchased. The software community forum claimed that one of the forum's admins responded that this was a scam email and that users should ignore it after a user inquired if CCleaner did send such emails in the software community forum.
FTR
Over 2.5 billion downloads of this popular utility have been made by Piriform Software, a company that has been around since 2004.
CCleaner has been compromised by a backdoor-installing Trojan horse since 2017.
As a result of the backdoor in the software, attackers could have gained access to millions of devices.
CCleaner, is owned by cybersecurity company Avast.
Why anyone still trusts CCleaner is beyond me
from 2017
in September 2017, CCleaner malware was discovered.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/18/16325202/ccleaner-hack-malware-security
@ecksmc I never used and never will, trust neither Avast nor any other of the big ones.
@ecksmc Avast cant be trusted and by default neither can their software.
Several people contacted CCleaner, and the company got back to them and confirmed that it sent out emails to those who were affected.
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Popular optimization tool CCleaner has confirmed its services have been hit by a data breach, seemingly caused by the MOVEit data theft fiasco.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/ccleaner-hit-by-data-breach-that-saw-customer-data-stolen-blames-moveit-hack#:~:text=Popular%20optimization%20tool%20CCleaner%20has,data%20from%20CCleaner%2C%20TechCrunch%20reported.