We were basically forced to change what the article said, based on what TeamViewer wanted us to say about them. After my article went live noon yesterday, TeamViewer contacted my publication, making threats against quotes that I gathered by users here and on Twitter. I wrote one of the top trending articles for the recent hacked accounts and downtime on TeamViewer. There are also Reddit users claiming that they have written blog posts about the situation and TeamViewer PR has contacted their publication making threats and requesting they pull their coverage. Teamviewer has been very insistent that there has been no hack and is defending itself on Twitter as users bombard them with Twitter mentions. Regardless of the incident, TeamViewer continuously works to ensure the highest possible level of data and user protection.There is no security breach at TeamViewer.TeamViewer experienced network issues because of the DoS-attack to DNS servers and fixed them.We have no evidence that these issues are related. Some online media outlets falsely linked the incident with past claims by users that their accounts have been hacked and theories about would-be security breaches at TeamViewer. TeamViewer immediately responded to fix the issue to bring all services back up. The outage was caused by a denial-of-service attack (DoS) aimed at the TeamViewer DNS-Server infrastructure. TeamViewer experienced a service outage on Wednesday, June 1, 2016. You can read TeamViewer’s latest press statement below. The company is also reaching out to other publications they believe have skewed their coverage to make TeamViewer look bad and without having facts to back up allegations. UPDATE: – The PR manager for TeamViewer has reached out to us denying the allegations and information that there was a TeamViewer hack. Microsoft Teams Screen Sharing Not Working on Windows-MAC
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