Stolen Adobe Passwords Were Encrypted, Not Hashed

rjmarvin writes "The hits keep coming in the massive Adobe breach. It turns out the millions of passwords stolen in the hack reported last month that compromised over 38 million users and source code of many Adobe products were protected using outdated encryption security instead of the best practice of hashing. Adobe admitted the hack targeted a backup system that had not been updated, leaving the hacked passwords more vulnerable to brute-force cracking."

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[stewsters]

http://xkcd.com/1286/

Re:It's too late

[Anonymous Coward]

And nothing you do or say will change the fact you misspelled "situation".

Et tu, Adobe?

[CCarrot]

Adobe admitted the hack targeted a backup system that had not been updated, leaving the hacked passwords more vulnerable to brute-force cracking.

Apparently even Adobe has trouble keeping up with updates and patches...what's the matter, get tired of the update server's nagging every couple of weeks?

I'm sure there's some irony to be found in this situation somewhere...

Re:Am I imagining it?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, there's your problem. Everybody knows Adobe doesn't scale well.

Re:Very breakable

[Anonymous Coward]

Please share with us, this, little, simple stistical analysis method.

Re:Am I imagining it?

[QuasiSteve]

It's funny because bicubic

It's pretty sad when

[Anonymous Coward]

even xkcd beats Slashdot to a story.