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Adobe Breach Compromised Over 38 Million Users, Photoshop Source Code

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. We can always hope by nospam007 · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

    1. Re:We can always hope by dgatwood · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

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  2. The untold story by dysmal · · 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 · · 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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  3. No News Is Good News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Adobe hasn't notified me of anything so my data must be safe. Right?

    Right?

  4. Re:Hmm... Source Code... by 0123456 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  5. Re:Why was the sourcecode even on the server? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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