Adobe Breach Compromised Over 38 Million Users, Photoshop Source Code

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."

Comments

We can always hope

[nospam007]

The breach was made possible by a bug in Adobe Acrobat Reader I hope.
That would be Karma.

Re:We can always hope

[dgatwood]

In my experience, it's a safe bet that any company that cuts as many corners as Adobe does in one area probably cuts corners in almost every other area. This leads to the obvious question of whether the crackers will find any serious security holes in Photoshop and exploit them. Given how much they seem to resist fixing even the most trivial bugs in Photoshop, I'd be willing to bet that the entire codebase is an unholy cesspool, which means it is probably rife with security holes, too.

Re:We can always hope

[X0563511]

I think we can all agree that there's no need for an NSA-specific backdoor in that piece of crap...

Re:We can always hope

[dhaines]

...they seem to resist fixing even the most trivial bugs in Photoshop...

Adobe fixes bugs! They save up all the fixes then charge for them in the next release.

Re:We can always hope

[tbuddy]

Now that we have no more perpetual licensing the issue of having to pay for a next release is a non-issue. They still haven't pushed out a compelling feature for my licenses to merit upgrading, however.

Cloudy skies

[girlintraining]

So how's that new "Cloud all the apps" thing working out for you guys so far? Ah. I see you leaked pretty much your whole database of people who had signed up for it. Well then, carry on.

In other news, I hope your new strategy crashes into the dirt so hard the only thing that'll be memorable about Adobe in 5 years will be is the case study on it in business classes around the world on how not to do it.

Re:Cloudy skies

[aiadot]

Whether the cloud strategy is working or not doesn't matter. As long as artists, web designers, graphic designers, wannabes, etc, keeping using Photoshop et al for everything they do, even when is completely unnecessary either because there are cheaper, sufficient or better alternatives depending on the job, Adobe has no need to listen to reason. They'll still be making all the money they want.

Would suck to be them

[jones_supa]

I know we're gonna get all the "ha ha, it's an evil megacorp anyway", but damn it must be stressful moments to some of the folks at Adobe. :/ Especially if the source code leaks turn out to be true.

Why was the sourcecode even on the server?

[Nyder]

Anyone else wondering why the sourcecode was even able to be accessed? Seems like a stupid thing to have on a web server, or able to access from a web server.

That's like leaving a laptop sitting on a seat in car while you are out shopping/whatever.

Re:Hmm... Source Code...

[0123456]

Sounds like another open source project with inappropriate funding.

They have much more important things to do. Like crippling the 'Save As' window so it can now only 'Save As' GIMP format, and you have to 'Export' to save a JPEG.