Meshkov told TechCrunch in an email that the number of affected accounts was likely in the low hundreds. ![]() It’s not known how many accounts were affected. “As a precautionary measure, we have reset passwords to all AdGuard accounts,” said Andrey Meshkov, AdGuard’s co-founder and chief technology officer.ĪdGuard has about five million users worldwide, and is one of the most prominent ad-blockers available.Īlthough the company said that some accounts were improperly accessed, there wasn’t a direct breach of its systems. But, the effort was “not enough” when the attackers know the passwords, a blog post said. That’s when hackers take lists of stolen usernames and passwords and try them on other sites.ĪdGuard said that the hacking attempts were slowed thanks to rate limiting - preventing the attackers from trying too many passwords in one go. ![]() The company said it “detected continuous attempts to login to AdGuard accounts from suspicious IP addresses which belong to various servers across the globe,” in what appeared to be a credential stuffing attack. ![]() Popular ad-blocker AdGuard has forcibly reset all of its users’ passwords after it detected hackers trying to break into accounts.
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