Gen Digital, the company that owns CCleaner, sent an email to customers confirming that hackers stole personal data, including names, phone numbers, and billing information, during the MOVEit data breach.
Recently, millions of users worldwide using the well-known Windows utility CCleaner acknowledged that a data breach had impacted it.
The company that creates CCleaner, Gen Digital, acknowledged in an email to its clients that hackers had taken advantage of their personal data, including names, phone numbers, and billing information.
Hackers exploited a security flaw in MOVEit, a file transfer program used by thousands of organizations worldwide to send massive volumes of data over the internet, according to Gen Digital.
The business has stated that the hack has not affected login credentials, credit card numbers, or banking information.
Looks like @CCleaner was hit by the MOVEit hack: pic.twitter.com/XSiM40VtQB
— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) October 25, 2023
According to Jess Monney, a Gen Digital spokesperson who spoke with TechCrunch without providing specific numbers, the breach has impacted less than 2% of users.
Although the Clop ransomware has not listed CCleaner on its dark web website, the vulnerability allowed the ransomware to steal sensitive data from interconnected systems.
Although CCleaner does not disclose its user count, Gen Digital asserts that it has over 65 million paying customers globally.
The company also owns cybersecurity firms such as Avira, Avast, and NortonLifeLock in addition to CCleaner.
CCleaner creators offer BreachGuard, a tool that scans the dark web for data breaches and alerts users if any personal information is being sold, for free to impacted users for six months.
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For those who don’t know, hackers began focusing on MOVEit earlier in May of this year.
Since then, the breach has impacted almost 66 million users globally, making it one of the largest hacks of 2023.
Experts estimate that the breach has affected more than 2,500 organizations.
