Also I've reported about a misuse of hacked TeamViewer versions in cyber attacks. In the blog post at that time I linked some information about Permira and also asked 'how trustable can this vendor be, if they are not transparent in financial affairs'. The buyer was the British private equity company Permira, which took over the GmbH in an exit for a purchase price of 1.1 billion US $ (800 million Euro), without announcing that in public. But this company was silently acquired by a private equity fund – I had reported about it in the German blog post TeamViewer: 'Stille' Übernahme durch Private Equity–Fonds. And I don't like the quote unicorn, but I need to confess, TeamViewer is a success story.

Well, after 14 years a company is no longer a startup (in my view). German news magazine Der Spiegel (article here behind Paywall) quotes the TeamViewer company as one of the most important 'unicorns' and startups from Germany. The developers are the German TeamViewer GmbH from Göppingen (a small German town near Stuttgart), which was founded in 2005. The software is now said to be installed on 2 billion devices worldwide. According to the company, more than 200 million users (many companies) used this software for web conferences and remote maintenance as early as 2014.

Quite easy to use and very functional – even free for private users. Many of you know the TeamViewer – a remote maintenance software. Some preliminary remarks about TeamViewer

Teamviewer hacked june 2016