Adobe Security Breach

RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,963 moderator
edited November 17, 2013 in The Big Picture
The NYT is reporting a significant security breach at Adobe involving customer data:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/technology/adobe-announces-security-breach.html?_r=0

I haven't received any direct communication from Adobe, have you?
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  • JimClarkJimClark Registered Users Posts: 305 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2013
    I got a email from them this evening


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  • AceCo55AceCo55 Registered Users Posts: 950 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2013
    Got an email this afternoon
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited October 4, 2013
    Nightingale and I got ours as well, this morning, Richard...
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  • moose135moose135 Registered Users Posts: 1,420 Major grins
    edited October 5, 2013
    I just received the e-mail notification moments ago. It says "We currently have no indication that there has been unauthorized activity on your account" and says they reset my password.
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  • NikonsandVstromsNikonsandVstroms Registered Users Posts: 990 Major grins
    edited October 8, 2013
    I only glanced at it as I've had too much on my plate recently, but did anyone sign up for the free year of credit protection? How involved of a process was it?
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,963 moderator
    edited October 11, 2013
    I (finally) got a notification to change my password today, but there was no mention of credit protection. Whenever I have the choice, I don't allow Web sites to save my credit card info. I don't remember whether Adobe provided that option. ne_nau.gif
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  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,145 moderator
    edited October 11, 2013
    Richard wrote: »
    ... Whenever I have the choice, I don't allow Web sites to save my credit card info. I don't remember whether Adobe provided that option. ne_nau.gif

    If you subscribe to one of the "Creative Cloud" subscriptions then I believe that you "must" allow them to keep your credit card information. Otherwise, how could they bill you automatically each month? ne_nau.gif
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,963 moderator
    edited October 11, 2013
    Right--I haven't taken the CC kool aid, though I have purchased software directly from Adobe.
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  • USAIRUSAIR Registered Users Posts: 2,646 Major grins
    edited October 24, 2013
    Now Adobe is offering free 1 year credit monitoring.
    The company is Experian.
    Anyone every hear of this company?

    Calling Adobe is a joke got someone with a heavy accent.
    And sorry but I can't understand them.

    I called Expering they want a lot of info including SS#.
    I'm not sure if I want to give out anymore on my personal info.ne_nau.gif

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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,963 moderator
    edited October 24, 2013
    Experian is a large financial services company now based in Ireland. They used to be TRW a while back and are big in credit reporting. They probably know all about you anyway rolleyes1.gif.
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited November 6, 2013
    It is much worse than Adobe first stated. http://blog.lastpass.com/2013/11/take-action-now-check-if-youre-affected.html
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,963 moderator
    edited November 6, 2013
    Andy wrote: »
    It is much worse than Adobe first stated. http://blog.lastpass.com/2013/11/take-action-now-check-if-youre-affected.html
    It's also very bad news that Acrobat and Reader source code was compromised. Whatever security by obscurity those apps ever had is now gone. The breach may create new vulnerabilities in PDFs, and that could affect just about everyone on the net, not just Adobe customers.
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  • captnemocaptnemo Registered Users Posts: 186 Major grins
    edited November 11, 2013
    Hope experion has better ethics then equifax, when one of my previous employers had a security breach they offered us free credit checks through equifax- I signed up with a dedicated email used only for that purpose and promptly started to receive spam! Needless to say I wasn't impressed. Adobe didn't mention anything about that to me but they did have me change my password.
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,943 moderator
    edited November 17, 2013
    Got an interesting email from Eventbrite today. They claim I have an account there. Now I may have used the service, I definitely don't have an account there.

    Nothing malicious in their note but it got me to thinking by writing an email like that, you could phish pretty effectively among a small group of people.
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