Avast Software Clear of Piriform’s cCleaner hacking
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Melbourne, Australia – September 21, 2017 On September 18, 2017, it was reported in an article titled, “Hackers compromised free CCleaner software, Avast’s Piriform says” by Reuters; San Francisco, that hackers infiltrated the British company Piriform Ltd’s free software known as cCleaner. cCleaner is a utility software tool produced by London’s Piriform Ltd, which was acquired by Avast Software in July 2017; Avast Software being one of the world’s largest computer security vendors. At the time of this acquisition Piriform reported that it had 130 million users using its product. The reported hack apparently affected approximately 2 million users with a version of cCleaner,…