AdGuard; Change your password immediately

AdGuard, a popular ad blocker for , iOS, Windows and Mac, resets all user passwords, it announced today the CTO of Andrey Meshkov.

The company made this decision when it came under attack in which an attacker attempted to log into user accounts by guessing passwords.AdGuard

Meshkov said the attacker managed to gain access to certain user accounts by using names and passwords that had leaked after violations in other companies.

AdGuard's CTO said:

We don't know which accounts were hacked. All passwords stored in AdGuard's data is encrypted, so we can't check if there are any leaked from another database. That's why we decided to reset all users' passwords.

The company says it uses the "Have I Be Pwned" API so that if any code is leaked, the of AdGuard will warn the user who uses it.

Meshkov also announced that AdGuard will use stricter rules for password selection and that they intend to add two-factor authentication sometime in the future.

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