Your privacy and security is a top priority for the company behind MacKeeper; at least that’s what Kromtech claimed after 13 million user account credentials leaked from an unsecured database.

Chris Vickery, who works as an IT helpdesk tech and as a security researcher when not at work, took to Reddit to warn that he had downloaded “over 13 million sensitive account details related to MacKeeper, Zeobit, and/or Kromtech;” he posted screenshot proof on Imgur.

Chris Vickery

There are several ironies in Vickery’s discovery as he “had never even heard of MacKeeper or Kromtech” until after he used Shodan to search for TCP port 27017. He told Krebs on Security, “The funny thing is, I don’t even own a Mac.” He added, “I didn’t know it was some sort of scamming scareware or software that pushes itself on people. The irony here is pretty thick.”

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