About CCleaner and BreachGuard.

[EdCo]

Hello All,

I am pretty new here but i am a authentic CCleaner Professional user. All fine till last week that i have a mail from CCleaner about that exploit and that personal data has been leaked, and a briefly notice about how, now CCleaner offer me a 6 month BreachGuard ( Witch i never heard about...) And i was looking about information about that hack and avast have a BreachGuard allready and we do all know that CCleaner was taken over in 2017 by Avast. 

What is weird about this that CCleaner offer me to use BreachGuard, but they told me to watch my e-mail in the next couple(!) of weeks for installing instructions....why?

The damage is allready done, wy do i have to wait a couple of weeks?

Edited November 9, 2023 by EdCo
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[nukecad]

The data breach has happened, nothing can undo it. (PS. Many companies had customer and other data taken in the same MOVEit breach).

As with any data breach it just means that you should be extra careful about any emails that you recieve, (But you should always be careful about emails anyway).

What Breachguard does is check the web to see if any of your email address(es) has, or may have, been collected in a data breach and then turn up in a list anywhere on the web.
It just warns you about it if they do turn up on such a list. Breachguard can't prevent them being posted on a list, or remove them from a list, it's just a warning.
How useful you might find such a warning, or not, is for you to decide.

You can basically get the same information that Breachguard will tell you by entering your email address(es) into haveIbeenpwned, Breachguard just does it without you having to check manually yourself.
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
There's also one for passwords:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

Here's a review of breachguard from 2020: https://uk.pcmag.com/encryption/127704/avast-breachguard

[EdCo]

Dear nukecad,

I do know about security and funny is that its not my e-mail address that had leaked, i allready did that on the link you given in the comment.

How carefull i was...you have to fill in personal information when you buy something on the internet so in my case its a company who has been hacked and that is something i can't do anything about that and thats sad because my personal security here at home and underway are pretty much 100%.

[nukecad]

Just because your email isn't currently being flagged as breached doesn't mean that it won't appear on a list of emails for sale next week, or next month, or ------

If it does appear on such a list then is the time that it will show up on haveibenpwned, breachguard, and similar services; not before then.

CCleaner/Gen Digital seem fairly sure that your data/email may have been collected in the MOVEit breach, why would they have sent you a warning email otherwise?

What you choose to do with that warning is up to you.