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Antivirus firm Avast has today confirmed that it took its Community support forum offline following a data breach which may have affected log in ids and passwords of more than 400,000 users.
Company's CEO Vincent Steckler today stated in a blog post that user's nicknames, user names, email addresses and hashed passwords were compromised in a attack on Avast Forum which took place over this past weekend. Steckler also noted in the same blog, that although the passwords are hashed but it could be possible for a sophisticated thief / progammer to derive these passwords.
Avast claims that this attack seems to have affected less than 0.2% of a total of 200 million users of the forum. It also claimed that no financial details like payment, license terms or other data was compromised.
The Forum (forum.avast.com) has since been taken offline and is being rebuilt and moved to a more secure platform. Avast has already informed all the affected parties via email asking them to immediately change their passwords. Users may also change their other passwords like Facebook, gmail and other emails, banking etc. if its the same as the Avast forum account
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Company's CEO Vincent Steckler today stated in a blog post that user's nicknames, user names, email addresses and hashed passwords were compromised in a attack on Avast Forum which took place over this past weekend. Steckler also noted in the same blog, that although the passwords are hashed but it could be possible for a sophisticated thief / progammer to derive these passwords.
Avast claims that this attack seems to have affected less than 0.2% of a total of 200 million users of the forum. It also claimed that no financial details like payment, license terms or other data was compromised.
The Forum (forum.avast.com) has since been taken offline and is being rebuilt and moved to a more secure platform. Avast has already informed all the affected parties via email asking them to immediately change their passwords. Users may also change their other passwords like Facebook, gmail and other emails, banking etc. if its the same as the Avast forum account
Avast Anti Virus Forum hacked, Login Credentials of 400,000 users compromised
Antivirus firm Avast has today confirmed that it took its Community support forum offline following a data breach which may have affected log in ids and
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