BBC reports-Adobe hack: at least 38 million accounts breached

Derrel · Oct 31, 2013

The BBC is reporting that the 2.9 million user accounts that Adobe said were breached in a recent Adobe hacking case was a bit low. In case you missed it, earlier Adobe reported that 2.9 million users' accounts had been accessed. Turns out they were a little bit off, and today Adobe's reporting over 38 million user accounts and encrypted passwords were breached.

Also, apparently some of Adobe's source code to Photoshop has been stolen, in addition to the Acrobat PDF software and ColdFusion web app creation software, as was originally reported. You know, back when they let the 2.9 million user info out to the public...

Wow...Karma is a tough mistress.

Read about it on the BBC's news pages. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24740873

lambertpix · Nov 6, 2013

If any of you want to read a little post-mortem on this debacle, this is a really good read. It turns out Adobe really blew this, security-wise. For starters, don't let that "encrypted passwords" bit placate you. They did this in a way that made their encryption just about useless. Not too cool, Adobe.

Anatomy of a password disaster ? Adobe?s giant-sized cryptographic blunder | Naked Security