Avast published earlier today a post-mortem of the CCleaner malware incident, in the hopes to clarify some of the details surrounding the event that many of its users found troubling. Avast CEO Vince Steckler and CTO Ond ej Vl..ek say that number of affected users has now gone down to 730,000 as users removed or updated installations. The company also wanted to stress that the compromise occurred before Avast bought Piriform and following the two Avast migrated Piriform’s build environment onto Avast’s internal IT system.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/avast-clarifies-details-surrounding-ccleaner-malware-incident/