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 accepted a attack brute-force in which an attacker tried to log into user accounts by guessing passwords.
Meshkov said the attacker was able to gain access to some user accounts using names and passwords that had been leaked after breaches in other Companies.
AdGuard's CTO said:
We don't know which accounts were hacked. All passwords stored in AdGuard's database are encrypted, so we can't check if any were leaked from another database. That's why we decided to reset all users' passwords.
Η εταιρεία αναφέρει ότι χρησιμοποιεί το API του "Have I Be Pwned", ούτως ώστε αν κάποιος κωδικός έχει διαρρεύσει, το σύστημα της ΑdGuard θα προειδοποιήσει τον χρήστη που τον χρησιμοποιεί.
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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