Bad time for security companies. Its forum Avast hacked by hackers who managed to fail data by 400.000 users.
Avast security product vendor released the offline community forum on Monday when he discovered that hackers had accessed their users' database.
Η επίθεση στα forum της Τσεχικής εταιρείας φαίνεται ότι έγινε το Σαββατοκύριακο, και οι hackers κατάφεραν να αποκτήσουν πρόσβαση στα ψευδώνυμα των χρηστών, στα ονόματα τους, στις διευθύνσεις ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου και στους κωδικοποιημένους κωδικούς access, says Avast CEO Vince Steckler on the company's blog.
The breach affected less than 0,2 percent of the company's users. But this translates into 400.000 users since Avast had registered 200 millions of users. Continuing Vince Steckler, he said the most important customer data, such as financial data, was not affected as hackers failed to gain access.
The passwords were stored encoded, but that does not mean anything. If you have an Avast account, change it immediately code your access. If you use the same usernames and passwords to log in to any other sites, please change those passwords immediately.
