Has TeamViewer been compromised?

There is been a lot of discussion here at the office lately about whether or not TeamViewer has been hacked, so I have been keeping my eye out for any confirmation from some of the sources that I trust as to whether or not this actually has happened. One of the sources I trust is Sophos’s Naked Security Blog has finally come out with a an article discussing this.

The article discusses what TeamViewer does and how it's being compromised will affect you if you are using this application. Click on the link above to see the full article.

ArsTechnica three days ago posted a report that confirms there was a number of abused user accounts and that the number is significant as reported by TeamViewer themselves.

On Sunday, TeamViewer spokesman Axel Schmidt ack he nowledged to Ars that the number of takeovers was "significant," but he continued to maintain that the compromises are the result of user passwords that were compromised through a cluster of recently exposed megabreaches involving more than 642 million passwords belonging to users of LinkedIn, MySpace, and other services.

TeamViewer thinks that the compromise  that they use another applications  comes from individuals reusing passwords that have been compromised.They are suggesting that you use the two factor authentication to control any type of issue with the accounts that are using this program. This is a smart thing to do in any case with almost any application that you are using.Take a look at the ArsTechnica article to get the more in depth view conversation that they had with  the people at TeamViewer.