It’s that time again: We need to change passwords and hope that one uses only unique access. Adobe had namely announce that it has become the victim of a broad-based hacks. Adobe writes on his blog, you must have “recently” discover several attacks on their own network, while there was an unauthorized access to customer data , also the hackers were able to steal the source code of several Adobe products. Apparently it has have acted as several separate attacks, the company assumes, however, that they are interconnected.
Adobe After this information has been stolen around 2.9 million records of customers, especially the user IDs and passwords. Part of the data and the real customer names and encrypted credit card numbers (outlet) dates, and other customer information. According to the company, do not go at the moment but believe that the hackers were able to tap unencrypted credit card numbers. An internal investigation is already underway, and “external partners” and investigating authorities have been informed about the incident. For accounts now affected a password reset has been performed, the owners of the corresponding Adobe IDs should under their e- mails already find an appropriate understanding, there is also explains how to reset or change the password now.
Those in which the credit card data was stored, get a second notification, where they learn how to protect themselves against a possible abuse. The banks, on the run, the stolen credit cards were also informed that the customer accounts must also fear from this side, so only a few inconveniences as possible. Adobe writes that it “aggressively” working on it, that such a thing can not happen in the future, even if you apologize to all concerned for this incident. 
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