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TeamViewer has been hacked. Uninstall it ASAP - Angel Beats - 06-03-2016
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4m7ay6/teamviewer_has_been_hacked_they_are_denying/
They have been hacked. I have had people log into my steam and paypal accounts today. Change your passwords and uninstall it.
RE: TeamViewer has been hacked. Uninstall it ASAP - Pirate - 06-03-2016
I have not used teamviewer in months and still had it installed. fuck
RE: TeamViewer has been hacked. Uninstall it ASAP - Inori - 06-03-2016
The scarier thing is that TeamViewer is hard as hell to completely remove from your system. It installs a tunnel adapter and creates firewall rules for connections by default, which (I believe) you're required to remove separately.
RE: TeamViewer has been hacked. Uninstall it ASAP - zorrophreak - 06-03-2016
Well that fucking sucks. It was my go to support software. Looks like I'll just rig some shit with VNC because I don't feel like buying a subscription to anything else.
RE: TeamViewer has been hacked. Uninstall it ASAP - mothered - 06-03-2016
(06-03-2016, 01:13 AM)Angel Beats Wrote: I have had people log into my steam and paypal accounts today.
This Is a perfect example of why Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) should be enabled on supported accounts- PayPal Is one of them.
Although It's somewhat easy to circumvent It via SE'ing, having a second form of authentication (example, generating a verification code to the cell phone number associated with the account) for any login attempts, certainly beats the use of a single-password login.
It's not good to read that your accounts were compromised. I do hope you can sort It out with too much Interruption. I don't have TV (never have), so I'm lucky In that respect.
Thanks for this, I appreciate all security breaches that come to hand.
RE: TeamViewer has been hacked. Uninstall it ASAP - Blacksmith - 06-03-2016
Geez... That's ridiculous. Very sorry to hear about your accounts. Sounds like pretty hardcore damage.
Always been pretty skeptical of programs like this for a reason (I'm not sure if I even trust password managers like Roboform), but this is the first I've heard of one of them getting compromised this badly. I wonder if TeamViewer will go under from this.
Good luck changing your accounts, thanks for the PSA.
RE: TeamViewer has been hacked. Uninstall it ASAP - Oni - 06-03-2016
I have been suspicious of Teamviewer lately. If this is legitimate it only justifies my suspicions.
RE: TeamViewer has been hacked. Uninstall it ASAP - Azzid - 06-03-2016
I would but my PC is broken so I can't haha o well
RE: TeamViewer has been hacked. Uninstall it ASAP - Angel Beats - 06-03-2016
mothered Wrote:This Is a perfect example of why Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) should be enabled on supported accounts- PayPal Is one of them.Nothing was lost. 2FA on my steam. I can't use 2FA on my paypal as it was my business one and I do not have a second phone but it doesn't matter nothing was lost there either.
Although It's somewhat easy to circumvent It via SE'ing, having a second form of authentication (example, generating a verification code to the cell phone number associated with the account) for any login attempts, certainly beats the use of a single-password login.
It's not good to read that your accounts were compromised. I do hope you can sort It out with too much Interruption. I don't have TV (never have), so I'm lucky In that respect.
Thanks for this, I appreciate all security breaches that come to hand.
I am lucky I noticed early that it was teamviewer.
RE: TeamViewer has been hacked. Uninstall it ASAP - mothered - 06-03-2016
(06-03-2016, 01:20 PM)Angel Beats Wrote: 2FA on my steam. I can't use 2FA on my paypal as it was my business one and I do not have a second phone
Firstly, In terms of Items of value, It's good to read that nothing was compromised.
With PayPal, I assume you have 2FA on a personal account, hence can't use the same cell phone on your business account correct? If so, given It's the same payment system, I would've thought the same cell phone could be shared.