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Lenovo to pay $7.3m for installing adware in 750,000 laptops
In 2015, Beijing based laptop manufacturer and seemingly reliable technology company Lenovo made headlines that its 750,000 laptops had pre-installed adware called VisualDiscovery developed by Superfish. The adware played a vital role in compromising online security protections installed by the users on their laptops, accessed financial data and performed man-in-the-middle attack on private and secure connections due to which attackers could gain free access to the system and spied on encrypted communications.
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$7 million for the lawyers, a Starbucks coupon for the users.
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