The U.S. software giant Adobe has become the victim of a massive attack. Hackers have penetrated the network software engineers and come to the user data of nearly three million customers. Apparently, the attackers also copied source code “of many Adobe products,” as the company announced on Thursday on his blog. Adobe is known for its creative software such as video editing program Premiere and the image editing program Photoshop.
The security team at Adobe called “sophisticated” attacks on the corporate network. In the attack, including the names and passwords have been read by 2.9 million customers, as well as credit card numbers, including expiration date. “We deeply regret that this incident happened,” the security chief Brad Arkin writes in the blog post. And tried to calm the customer: He believes that the hackers have gotten only encrypted credit card information
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right is obviously not one of them at Adobe. In the notice to members Arkin writes, one working to make all users locate their credit card data has been read. These members receive a message with tips, “to protect themselves against possible misuse of personal information.”
Safety Tips for userspasswords of the users Adobe resets automatically. Explaining the company’s customers, as they can create a new password on a dedicated website. And advises users that use the same credentials on other sites, also there to change the password.
already a week ago, the journalist Brian Krebs had the staff at Adobe informed about the possible attack. Cancer had discovered a 40 gigabyte large data packet to a server, which he identified as the source of some Adobe programs. These included, for example, the database application ColdFusion, and Adobe Acrobat PDF. Brian Krebs has become suspicious because on the server, the data have frequently been discovered by hackers.
Aftercancer had turned to its data items to Adobe, the company said that it since mid-September already seeking a far-reaching breaking into the corporate network. Accordingly, the attackers were able to access the middle of August to the data.
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