CCleaner was developed by Piriform and has been recently acquired by Prague-based antivirus maker Avast in July.

CCleaner has more than 2 billion downloads worldwide and is downloaded as often as 5 million times per week.

However, the Mac and Android versions of CCleaner do not appear to have been affected.

Hackers compromised CCleaner software by installing a hidden backdoor

The investigation is still ongoing,Piriforms Yung said.

The latest version can be downloadedhere.

We apologise and are taking extra measures to ensure this does not happen again.

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We are working with US law enforcement in their investigation.

source: www.techworm.net