It is possible that some folks have been caught out by password reuse, or by weak passwords, or by a Windows Trojan disguised as an Adobe Flash update that's doing the rounds using TeamViewer to backdoor machines. TeamViewer spokesman Axel Schmidt told The Register by phone from Germany tonight that his company has not found any sign of a breach, and suggested people who have been hijacked contact the police. We're experiencing issues in parts of our network. While many suppliers have proper security means in place, others are vulnerable," the company Please know we have no security breach.
"Users are still using the same password across multiple user accounts with various suppliers. People aren't using strong enough credentials, or are reusing passwords from websites that have been hacked – such as LinkedIn and Tumblr, we're told. In a statement bizarrely dated last week but referencing today's events, the biz instead blamed "careless use" of passwords by its customers. We apologize for any inconveniences caused.Īfter getting its systems back online, TeamViewer insisted that its security was not breached. We are currently experiencing issues in parts of our network. TeamViewer has said sorry for the downtime. We've heard that its DNS servers were pointing towards Chinese IP addresses at one point, but we haven't been able to verify that. It's claimed 's DNS was screwed up during the IT snafu, thus stopping people from getting through to the Germany-based company's servers.
Pouring further fuel on the fire that TeamViewer had been infiltrated by criminals, at about 0700 Pacific Time (1500 in the UK) today TeamViewer suffered an outage lasting at least three hours, which knocked its website offline and left people unable to connect to their computers remotely.
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