AdGuard, a popular ad blocker for Android, 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 brute-force in which an attacker attempted to log into user accounts by guessing passwords.
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 to whom accounts were breached. All passwords stored in AdGuard's database are encrypted, so we cannot check if anyone they leaked from another database. That's why we decided to reset all users' passwords.
The company says it uses its “Have I Be Pwned” API, so that if someone codehas been leaked, the AdGuard system will warn the user using 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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