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27 May 2014

AVAST forum offline due to attack

The forum of AVAST, one of the world largest  companies producing antivirus software is currently offline and will remain so for a brief period. It was hacked over this past weekend and user nicknames, user names, email addresses and hashed (one-way encrypted) passwords were compromised.

Even though the passwords were hashed, it could be possible for a sophisticated thief to derive many of the passwords. If you use the same password and user names to log into any other sites, please change those passwords immediately. Once our forum is back online, all users will be required to set new passwords as the compromised passwords will no longer work.

This issue only affects our community-support forum. Less than 0.2% of our 200 million users were affected. No payment, license, or financial systems or other data was compromised.

We are now rebuilding the forum and moving it to a different software platform. When it returns, it will be faster and more secure. This forum for many years has been hosted on a third-party software platform and how the attacker breached the forum is not yet known. However, we do believe that the attack just occurred and we detected it essentially immediately.

We realize that it is serious to have these usernames stolen and regret the concern and inconvenience it causes you. However, this is an isolated third-party system and your sensitive data remains secure.

Sincerely,

Vince Steckler

CEO AVAST Software

OUR POINT
It is obvious that even big companies that work in the field of cyber security are known to make serious mistakes in adjacent spheres. A well-known company providing users’ data security was unable to preserve their means of communication with users having realized it on third-party platforms without the necessary control.
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Axarhöfði 14,
110 Reykjavik, Iceland

Iceland - 2015