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Adobe Hacked: Almost 3 Million Accounts Compromised

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 3, 2013 @10:28AM from the breaking-in dept.

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."

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Re:See... this is why I torrent cracked versions. by Em+Adespoton · 2013-10-03 11:30 · Score: 5, Informative

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.