
As reported
on the avast!
Blog , their forum has been cracked.
Attackers have access to usernames, email addresses, logins and passwords (in encrypted form). The attack only affected the support forum, licenses and financial data were not affected.
The forum was hacked last weekend and how the attackers hacked the forum is not known. At the moment the forum has been stopped and it was decided to transfer it from third-party platforms to its own.
AVAST Software CEO, Vince Stackler, apologizes and states that confidential data is still safe.
According to official data, 0.2% of all accounts, that is 400 thousand of 200 million, have flowed.