2.9 million Users’ data compromised in attack– Adobe

The Chief Security Officer of Adobe, Brad Arkin, has revealed that information about 2.9 million costumers of the company was breached by cyber attackers.

Attackers were able to access users’ usernames and passwords. They were also able to access their credit and debit card details.

“Our investigation currently indicates that the attackers accessed Adobe customer IDs and encrypted passwords on our systems.” he said in a blog post.

“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.” he continued.

Adobe has advised users to change their passwords in other websites or accounts where they have used the same password they used on Adobe. Adobe has promised to send affected users an email.

Adobe has notified banks about this development. Adobe has also noted that it is investigating the illegal access to source code of Adobe products like Adobe Acrobat, ColdFusion, ColdFusion Builder and others.

It has claimed that the access to these products does not pose any danger to users. Adobe is the maker of popular software like the image editor Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash player and the Adobe PDF Reader.

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