Discovered: Avast sells 435 million of its users' data

According to a joint investigation by Motherboard and PCMag, Avast, who claims there are more than 435 million users, has used a branch called Jumpshot to sell user data to the company, including Google, Microsoft, Home Depot, Pepsi, Kosovo Press broadcast.

The documents and data of users stemming from the investigation reveal that information collected from Avast in its tens of millions of users includes details that most consider sensitive, such as the story of the web browser, and that some of these data is enough to track individual clicks on a website.

In addition to the search stories, location stories and which videos one user looked at on YouTube, documents show that the Avast traced visits to PornHub or YouPort pages and in some cases recorded the time when a user visited the site and which specific videos they watched.

Although the data is said to be not personally identifiable, which means that it is not accompanied by a name or other identification, experts interviewed by Motherboard say the level of details followed by Avast can undermine his anonymity.

The data was sold to other companies like Condé. Nast, Intuit, Trip Advisor, and many more. Most of these companies didn't want to let you know what they've done with the data purchased by Avast.