Following the uproar, FSLabs founder Lefteris Kalamaras posted a public response admitting to the bundle but attempting to justify it as a highly specific anti-piracy measure. The developer claimed:
The extraction tool would if the installer detected specific pirated serial numbers circulating on torrent sites. Paying customers were perfectly safe and the file
When executed, the tool harvested every single auto-fill username and password saved in the user's Google Chrome browser. Following the uproar
Paying customers were perfectly safe and the file would never run on their machines. Paying customers were perfectly safe and the file
The collected credentials were meant to help the developers trace the identities of "crackers" to hand over to legal authorities. ⚖️ The Verdict: Why It Failed Ethically & Legally
The installer was designed to take that dumped password file, disguise it as a local log file, and send it back to FSLabs' servers.