Has TeamViewer Been Hacked?
Reports are coming in from all over the Internet that popular remote access service Team Viewer has been hacked. Users are reporting everything from control of their computers being taken over by remote parties, malware being installed, to PayPal accounts being drained. Users were reporting that the service was down for several hours as well.
Now the company has put out a statement denying the hack, and saying that the service was down because of a distributed denial of service attack, like the one that I got hit with recently. But I am not sure that I buy that. There’s a lot of evidence here that suggests that way more is going on than TeamViewer is admitting to. This is further backed up by a statement bizarrely dated last week but referencing the events of the last 24 hours or so where TeamViewer references “careless use” of passwords by its customers. It truly sounds like these guys have something to hide.
Whatever the truth is, I am sure we’ll find out what it is soon enough. In the meantime, if you use TeamViewer, it might be wise to stop using it for the time being to protect yourself.
June 3, 2016 at 12:42 pm
Yikes – that’s a little scary. I’m sure there are a whole lot of nervous people in the world right now.
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