Adobe hacked, data (including credit card info) for millions of customers stolen

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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, "[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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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2425215,00.asp

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Perhaps Chinese competitors. Let's see what they develop and release in one year.

[Rene]

2. 2 weeks ago I was trying to search for and set up printer drivers etc for my new laptop.

and kept getting prompted to download Adobe software, .... Since I thought it was a legit upgrade I clicked into it and my PC picked horrific Malware as a result. Had to have a PC professional clean up hundreds of bad files. One especially bad site was for sweetpacks googled it and found MANY articles about removing it....that's when I really knew I'd been invaded by viruses/malware.. Something's still wrong on the new PC...I can't get my hand held scanner to work and I can't get my Mozilla Firefox to work....just won't open many sites.