Adobe Breach Compromised Over 38 Million Users, Photoshop Source Code

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Adobe Breach Compromised Over 38 Million Users, Photoshop Source Code

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @09:52AM from the downside-to-massive-reach dept.

rjmarvin writes "Adobe's investigation into the massive data breach they were hit with this past August has revealed that over 38 million active users, not to mention inactive accounts, had their user IDs and passwords pilfered by hackers. An Adobe spokesperson confirmed the number, along with the theft of Adobe Photoshop source code. The initial report earlier this month put the extent of the breach at only 3 million credit card accounts, plus stolen Adobe Acrobat, Reader and ColdFusion source code."

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The untold story by dysmal · 2013-10-29 10:00 · Score: 5, Funny

The untold story is that the hackers tried to give back the source code but Adobe said NO GIVE BACKS!
1. Re:The untold story by icebike · 2013-10-29 10:03 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Given the level of bloat in Photoshop and Acrobat, I'm amazed the hackers had enough disk space and time to download it.
  
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2. Re:The untold story by X0563511 · 2013-10-29 10:27 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  95% of the codebase is the secret bug-generator. They just made sure not to pull down that external repository.
  
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3. Re:The untold story by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2013-10-29 10:40 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Given the level of bloat in Photoshop and Acrobat, I'm amazed the hackers had enough disk space and time to download it.
  The source is actually only 370 KB. The rest comes from C++ template instantiation.
  
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4. Re:The untold story by RocketRabbit · 2013-10-29 11:58 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Oh come on, they probably accelerated their download with the Adobe Download Manager.
No News Is Good News by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-29 10:01 · Score: 5, Funny

Adobe hasn't notified me of anything so my data must be safe. Right?
Right?
1. Re:No News Is Good News by icebike · 2013-10-29 10:09 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Adobe hasn't notified me of anything so my data must be safe. Right?
  Right?
  I got dozens of different notices. They had links to places where I could change my password. Lots of different places.
  I could forward you a few if you want.
  
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Oh no! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-29 10:06 · Score: 1, Funny

Oh no! Stolen!? I hope they get their source code back soon!
Re:With Photoshop "open sourced" by Stormwatch · 2013-10-29 10:21 · Score: 4, Funny

It's a very stylish lens.

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Re:With Photoshop "open sourced" by X0563511 · 2013-10-29 10:26 · Score: 4, Funny

Is that what they implemented in the recent Star Trek movies?
Lens Flair: Using lens flares to add flair.

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Re:With Photoshop "open sourced" by dgatwood · 2013-10-29 11:01 · Score: 3, Funny

Oops. I think you just a word there.

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Re:Would suck to be them by pwizard2 · 2013-10-29 12:48 · Score: 4, Funny

The rest of the world can finally see how god-awful their code really is.

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Re:Why was the sourcecode even on the server? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-29 13:32 · Score: 5, Funny

You think that's bad? GIMP puts all of their source and even the bug tracker on publicly accessible web servers.