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Adobe Hacked: Almost 3 Million Accounts Compromised
sl4shd0rk writes "Adobe Systems Inc. is expected to announce today that hackers broke into its network and stole source code for an as-yet undetermined number of software titles, including its ColdFusion Web application platform, and possibly its Acrobat family of products. The company said hackers also accessed nearly three million customer credit card records, and stole login data for an undetermined number of Adobe user accounts."
Adobe have been pushing software rental for the last couple of years. This involves recurrent payments. Recurrent payments require the vendor to store credit card details, or outsource the payment processing to a third party who stores the details.
Either way, if you're renting software your credit card details are being stored.
In related news, it turns out Adobe will give you some sort of software if you give them a credit card number. What a crazy business model!
Not for long... their new business model is that they will let you have access to their cloud if you give them a credit card number, and keep paying them regularly.
The articles so far seem to indicate the card numbers were encrypted.
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Citibank offers "Virtual Credit Cards" that are generated for you on demand. Each card is valid for one merchant only (the first transaction locks the merchant), has configurable expiration date and maximum amount limit. Even if stolen such virtual cards are of little use to the bad guys.