Adobe Hacked, Data for Millions of Customers Stolen

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Source: PC Magazine

Adobe Hacked, Data for Millions of Customers Stolen

By Damon Poeter October 3, 2013 06:29pm EST

Adobe said Thursday that it recently suffered a massive security breach which compromised the IDs, passwords, and credit card information of nearly three million customers.

"Our investigation currently indicates that the attackers accessed Adobe customer IDs and encrypted passwords on our systems. We also believe the attackers removed from our systems certain information relating to 2.9 million Adobe customers, including customer names, encrypted credit or debit card numbers, expiration dates, and other information relating to customer orders," Brad Arkin, Adobe's chief security officer, wrote in a security alert.

Arkin said the unknown attackers made off with encrypted credit and debit card numbers, &quot a)t this time, we do not believe the attackers removed decrypted credit or debit card numbers from our systems."

The software firm also said "source code for numerous Adobe products" was stolen in a separate intrusion that could be related to the theft of customer information.

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1. Sure am glad those health insurance exchanges are locked down tight.

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2. Wow, they were pushing their new subscription model too...

This is a significant failure in that it undermines their new business model.