Did you hear about Adobe getting hacked?

[thewayne]

It happened early this month and the crooks got a lot of good stuff: 38 million user accounts with hashed passwords and what appears to be the source code to Photoshop. Not a bad day's work, or however long it took them. And a lot of the user accounts contained credit card information! Yay! So if you've EVER bought a product directly from Adobe, particularly using a credit card that is still live, you might have an issue.

But not to worry! Adobe is offering to pay for a year of credit monitoring for you! There's only one slight problem: it's through Experian. The same people who sold the information needed to open credit in your name to criminals in Vietnam.

I think all of the Adobe products that I've bought recently I did through Amazon.

WHEE!

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/10/adobe-breach-impacted-at-least-38-million-users/#more-23030

Comments

[silveradept]

Lovely. I wonder about all the public library users who had to sign up with Adobe to get their DRM e-books...

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

They'll be forced to change their password the next time they sign on to Adobe.com. I doubt they provided the credit card etc. info to Adobe, they probably gave that to the book vendor.

My wife and I are taking a Intro To Programming/Python class via MIT/EdX, I bought an ebook of the text along with a dead tree edition, and all my credit card info is with MIT Press even though the software came via Adobe. I've not yet checked out an ebook from the library, I tried that during the summer for my library class and was unsuccessful, I didn't realize at that time that I have a browser issue. We'll see if said issue persists once I upgrade my desktop to OS-X 10.9.