Hackers cracked the program CCleaner
By Prempal Singh
The company Piriform announced the infection of its program to optimize the operation of the computer CСleaner-virus. The company’s statement says that data leakage could affect about 2.27 million users.
“We recently discovered that older versions of our program CCleaner 5.33.6162 and CCleaner Cloud 1.07.3191 underwent a hacker attack,” the report said.
In Piriform noted that “quickly resolved the problem.” According to preliminary data of the company, none of the users was hurt. Parent company Piriform, a developer of security software Avast, discovered a foreign code on September 12. As a result of hacking to a server located in the US, not personal, but still important data was transferred: the computer name, data about installed and active programs and IP-address.
The US authorities blocked access to the server on September 15 at the request of the company. Currently, the investigation is underway.