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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."
...to a nicer company. I feel bad for their customers, but I'm hoping this kind of breach pushes people to insist that their sensitive data isn't stored when it isn't absolutely necessary.
you can still buy offline standalone applications from adobe.... oh, wait.
However, as far as the source code is concerned, Adobe assured that there is no "increased risk to customers as a result of this incident."
In other words, the risk is as bad as ever.
Ok, I won't say gimp. How about Corel Draw?
Adobe must be the one company in the world to have a worse track record at security than Microsoft, Oracle or Mozilla. They have ignored industry best practices and been a thorn in the side of the rest of the industry for years while being oblivious to the damage their customers have suffered from their shoddy practices.
This is the same company that wants you to rely on their security as the only way to their products now that they only rent a cloud based versions of Acrobat Suite. Incidents like this are inevitable and people need to learn that their is nothing magical about the 'cloud'. Companies that have cloud dependencies for the use of their products necessarily expose all of their customers when they get cracked.
Do you trust Adobe with your security? Do you really think a company with their track record is going to get their act together?
You choose to not pay for the software that you prefer to use because you don't want to give your credit card number to Adobe? After which episode that Adobe had credit card records stolen from it did you make that decision? How long ago was that? How many times has Adobe been attacked and had customer credit card information stolen? You're sure that's not just a lame justification for not wanting to pay for the software that you prefer to use?
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
This is big news. Expect untold exploits for the Adobe technology stack to emerge out of this. If someone or some group is determined to run Adobe into the ground, they are off to a good start.
3 million plaintext numbers means that Adobe's PCI team rides the short PCI bus to work...
Buying a piece of software from a vendor: Adobe doesn't have your details.
Paying on a monthly basis to a software company: Adobe has your details.
Your point about the inability to see the future is intact. However, it doesn't discount being able to predict the potential future based on math and science.
Laughter is the Spackle of the Soul.
I'll take this one further:
Buying a piece of software from a vendor: Adobe doesn't have your details.
Paying on a monthly basis to a software company: Adobe has your details.
Software vendor not named Microsoft most responsible for exploits and attacks in the last 10 years: Adobe Systems
If they can't even keep something like Acrobat Reader secure, how the hell does anyone trust them with credit card information? The long road that has been "software activation" led us to this place.
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