The maker of the popular optimization app CCleaner has confirmed hackers stole a trove of personal information about its paid customers following a data breach in May.
In fairness to CCleaner, there’s lots of other organizations that were victims of MoveIt’s breach.
“mass exploitation of a vulnerability in the widely-used file transfer software MOVEit has allowed cybercriminals to steal data from a dizzying array of businesses and governments…” - Wired Article on the MoveIt breaches
Trusting MoveIt was regrettable, but lots of folks made the same mistake.
Never heard of ccleaner before, but it seems like some kind of data breach happens every other week. Nobody ever does anything about it besides issue a generic corporate non-apology that was written by their legal team. I have no doubt that several sketchy companies know more about my online activities than I’d ever want them to.
Companies tend to get serious about breach prevention after a breach.
But the same leadership who couldn’t retain Cybersecurity experts on staff before the breach doesn’t magically become good at hiring Cybersecurity experts after the breach.
So I suspect that most pay too much money for too little talent for their needs, and remain at high risk of another breach.
I have no doubt that several sketchy companies know more about my online activities than I’d ever want them to.
Oh yeah. Very much so.
To end this on a more positive note, the biggest single improvement a person can make right now, in my somewhat random, but informed, opinion, is to switch to the Firefox browser.
I could probably be convinced that installing uBlock origin or installing a PiHole are stronger, in a friendly argument over a round of drinks.
Of course, all three of those are compatible, for the truly paranoid.
I haven’t used any such tool for almost a decade probably and I don’t think there’s a need to nowadays. Occasionally I run the Windows Disk Cleanup utility to get rid of temp files and Windows Update installation files and that’s about it. Cleaning the registry is bullshit anyway that does more harm than good (doesn’t speed up anything certainly).
nuke and pave is the only real alternative. I do it every 3-4 months and it really only takes me a couple of hours to be back in business with all my apps and settings.
It used to be decent but that was a decade or more ago. Although the registry cleaning main functionality is typically pointless like every other registry “cleaner” out there.
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