Hey everyone!
I don’t know if anyone recalls this, but earlier this month
Adobe announced that hackers had gained access to credit card and other
personal data for nearly 3 million of its customers. This is obviously a lot,
but apparently the scale of the security breach was much, much, bigger. I was
skimming the New York Times yesterday when I came across an article (link
below) announcing that the true tally of personal data, usernames, and
passwords stolen has grown to over 38 million records.
I’m sure many of you working in the Multimedia Design Center
have accounts with some Adobe products, so this might be of concern to some of
you. The passwords, after their inscriptions are cracked (which for some reason
is apparently pretty easy to do), will most likely be sold on auction-like
black market sites. A single password can fetch as much as $20 a pop, which isn’t
that bad when you think that these hackers are selling nearly 40million of them…
But anyways, massive fortune aside, Adobe has said all of
the affected passwords have been reset, but, if you’re like me and use 1 or 2
passwords for everything, then the security threat might still be alive and
real. If you do have an Adobe account and may have been a victim of this
hacking, it may be smart to take precautions to ensure that you don’t become
more of a victim here. Or don’t, either way I just wanted to make sure everyone
was aware of this, just in case!
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~Trey Taraila
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/29/adobe-online-attack-was-bigger-than-previously-thought/?_r=0
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