This article was originally published on BGR. More from BGR: A hot new smartphone brand might finally be coming to America IPhone hacking case highlights FBI's lack of tech expertise Norton antivirus has a gaping security flaw Newly discovered zero-day exploit affects almost every version of Windows Remote-access software has to trade on the strength of unbreakable security just the faintest hint that there's a major security breach could kill the product. Whichever way you cut it, this doesn't look good for Teamviewer. Uninstall Teamviewer if you're particularly paranoid (or, to be honest, if you're not expressly using it right now).Ĭheck the log, which can be found under Extras->Open log files, and look for any unexpected incoming connectionsĬheck your credit cards, PayPal and eBay accounts for suspicious activityĬhange the password on your Teamviewer account, and check to see if your email has any known hacks that could reveal your password. Log out of your Teamviewer account on any machines running the service, so that access can't be gained by a username/password combo. While the breaches are being investigated, here's a few things you can do to ensure any machine you're running is safe. I won't be using their service again.Something weird is going on, however: Teamviewer's site was down for a few hours this morning, a problem the service attributed to a DNS problem. TeamViewer support is obviously lying about a breach as multiple users have seen active login sessions from China. Nonetheless, the login session will have had access to my computer and could have done anything, but I assume since nobody got in contact with me there was no suspicious activity. Luckily, I was not logged onto my user account on the PC due to the people repairing my PC being on an Admin account that I never use, which will not have my passwords stored within chrome. Above example, is from this morning, but it might as. On a regular base, I receive a mail looking like this : Uw account is recentelijk gebruikt om op dit apparaat in te loggen. My PC was offline when I went to look today so I assume when TeamViewer is booted again (which it is by default on my PC) it will fail to connect to the servers, at least I hope. Hi all, It looks like my teamviewer account keeps getting 'hacked'. Since I can't close the software on my PC with it being out of my hands, I figured this was the best way to remove access from anyone via TeamViewer. I disabled their login session and immediately deactivated my TeamViewer account completely. My computer has been away in repairs for the last 5 days but TeamViewer has been running while they were attempting to repair the PC. I went to look at my active login sessions and there was a session 2 days ago from China.

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