MacKeeper hacked: 13 million account details exposed<article>
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<p>On Sunday, white-hat hacker Chris Vickery announced on
Reddit that he was able to access “13 million sensitive account details” on MacKeeper. MacKeeper is owned by Kromtech, who brought it from the original developer Zeobit.</p><p>According to Vickery (who goes by the screen name FoundTheStuff) on Reddit, “The data was/is publicly available. No exploits or vulnerabilities involved. [Zeobit and Kromtech] published it to the open web with no attempt at protection.” Vickery found the vulnerability by doing a random “port:27017” search on Shodan.io.</p><p>Since his initial post on Reddit, Vickery has been in contact with the MacKeeper developers. Kromtech told Vickery that they have secured their databases. A
post on the MacKeeper website states that the company “will continue to take every possible step to protect the data of our customers from the evolving cyber threats that companies both large and small face on a daily basis.” The statement also said that since MacKeeper uses a third-party merchant, customer credit card and payment information was “never at risk.”</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3014607/security/mackeeper-hacked-data-for-13-million-accounts-exposed.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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MacKeeper hacked: 13 million account details exposed
