If you visit shady internet sites from an Apple Macintosh computer, you may have already seen an add from a product called MacKeeper. The researcher in question said:

"I have recently downloaded over 13 million sensitive account details related to MacKeeper, Zeobit, and/or Cromlech." Reddit

He said the information collected includes "names, email addresses, usernames, password hashes, computer name, ip address, software license and activation codes, type of hardware (ex: "macbook pro"), and type of subscriptions."

And he provides this screenshot as proof of his claim :

  <img src="https://ekiledjian2.micro.blog/uploads/2025/88cf7c9e7d.jpg" alt="">

The sites used encryption but used it badly... The researcher says:

"MD5 with no salt… so very weak hashing"

The moral of the story is be careful what you believe on the internet and where you buy your software from.