Adobe accounts compromised, 2.9 million users affected
Adobe has announced that millions of Adobe accounts have been compromised in a cyber attack, revealing customer information such as encrypted credit card details.
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Adobe has announced that millions of Adobe accounts have been compromised in a cyber attack.
The attack, which is detailed on Adobe's blog, also accessed the source code for a number of Adobe products such as Acrobat, ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder.
Information that has been compromised includes Adobe customer IDs and encrypted passwords of 2.9 million users. This also includes names, encrypted credit or debit card information, expiration dates and customer order details.
Adobe IDs are required not only for users that have Creative Cloud subscriptions, but also for downloading trial versions of products. The company said it would contact users whose details were compromised and automatically reset their passwords. Also, for affected accounts with credit or debit card details attached, Adobe will offer these customers the option of a one-year free credit monitoring membership.
"At this time, we do not believe the attackers removed decrypted credit or debit card numbers from our systems," said Brad Arkin, chief security officer at Adobe.
The company said that it is not aware of any zero-day exploits as a result of this attack.