MacKeeper developers have discovered a vulnerability that results in the leak of nearly 13 million users data.
What MacKeeper is doing?
It is software that claims to secure Mac…
The company claims that it has corrected the breach in some time.
This is the safety expert, Chris Vickery, who discovered the flaw and who posted Sunday on Reddit.
Vickery had never heard of MacKeeper, but it was random searches onShodan.iowith an instance named Port: 27017.
This is the default gateway port for the database MongoDB.
His search yielded 4 IP addresses associated with Kromtech, editor MacKeeper.
This offered public access to any personal data without the need for user name and password.
Kromtech does not compromise payment information because they are not stored on the servers of MacKeeper.
If this is not enough to Kromtech, one wonders what he considers an almost criminal negligence.
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MacKepper has a very bad reputation.
Known for its highly intrusive ads, MacKeeper is promoted as an antivirus.
But its just a scam that causes false positives among users to encourage them to buy the paid later.
