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The Superfish malware from 2015 was the one I was actually thinking of, but I couldn't find it quickly because the more recent examples were flooding the search results.
Here's a few more examples of Lenovo thinking they still own the laptop you paid for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_incidents