{"id":13120,"date":"2015-12-16T08:44:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T13:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13120"},"modified":"2018-11-26T14:11:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T19:11:08","slug":"mackeeper-exposes-data-on-13-million-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/16\/mackeeper-exposes-data-on-13-million-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"MacKeeper Exposes Data on 13 Million Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2015\/12\/14\/mackeeper-data-leak\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2015\/12\/14\/mackeeper-data-leak\/\"><p>As shared in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/apple\/comments\/3wq9fc\/massive_data_breach\/\">reddit post<\/a>, Chris Vickery (via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/thomasbrewster\/2015\/12\/14\/mackeeper-13-million-apple-mac-data-leak-passwords\/\">Forbes<\/a><\/em>) was able to download the records simply by entering an IP address, with no username or password required to access the data, a major security oversight on MacKeeper&rsquo;s part.<\/p>\n<p>MacKeeper was also using MD5 hashes for passwords, a weak algorithm that&rsquo;s easily bypassed using an MD5 cracking tool.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2015\/12\/14\/mackeeper-users-exposed\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2015\/12\/14\/mackeeper-users-exposed\"><p>It&rsquo;s bad enough they were ripping people off in the first place &mdash; now they&rsquo;ve exposed their passwords.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/21\/mackeeper\/\">MacKeeper<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: As shared in a reddit post, Chris Vickery (via Forbes) was able to download the records simply by entering an IP address, with no username or password required to access the data, a major security oversight on MacKeeper&rsquo;s part. MacKeeper was also using MD5 hashes for passwords, a weak algorithm that&rsquo;s easily bypassed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-11-26T19:11:10Z","apple_news_api_id":"b6634de8-e22a-4f1c-8f68-8d2a331843fb","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-11-26T19:11:11Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AtmNN6OIqTxyPaI0qMxhD-w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1755,30,32,1123,355],"class_list":["post-13120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-breach","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-mackeeper","tag-privacy"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13121,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120\/revisions\/13121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}