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Was your Adobe account hacked?

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I'm hoping to help a few people here.

As most of you know, Adobe was hacked and many peoples information and passwords were stolen and publicly put online. It's now said that 150 million accounts have been copied and peoples information is available.

Here's a web link to see if your account was hacked.

http://shuttermuse.com/adobe-password-hacked/

Adobe says you will get an email to change your password if you account was hacked. I have not currently received an email from Adobe, but according to the link above my account was hacked.

Either way, if your using Adobe products it's probably best to reset your password now.

Cheers
 
Yes I was one of those that received the e-mail... :(

But as I said in an other thread, changing passwords is not what matters, and what I strongly recommend to any one doing business on the net with any SF company, purchases form any store and so on, is to have a dedicated Account with a Debit/CC attached, were this card can only be charged upon availability of funds, and only make deposits in such account as needed...

Sucks, but at list hey won't go away with large amounts of money, if happens as it did with Adobe, all that one needs to do is to get a different card on that very same account.

Yet it is an unfortunate reality in which we are in with this age were all the information is moving to a Cloud base storage...

And that of Adobe is only one of the most known cases, but it is on the biggest, that record belongs to several others, 3 of whom are Banks... Sadly.
 
Yes I have my Credit Card on file too and having to change a card and update information is a pain. Which also means not having a company card for 5-10 business days...
 
Yep got the email.

So to date the list has grown from 3.5 million to 35 million to 150 million. This final figure must surely include a large majority of posters to this forum.

So now armed with this information and correlated with the use of real names on this forum it is quite easy to match addresses with names & who has gear and where that gear is stored, be it business or private.

I wonder how everybody feels about that?
 
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Yes I have two Adobe accts (home and work) and both were on the list... luckily I never gave Adobe a CC# - already changed my pwd - big PITA.
 
Never got any notification but LastPass says my account was found on the list. It is pretty horrible that others and I have had our account info, password and cc-information exposed but haven't been notified.

Maybe it's time to switch from Adobe.
 
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Looks like they got mine.

https://lastpass.com/adobe/
 
Yeah, I got the email and a physical letter from Adobe giving me a year of credit monitoring. I could probably get free credit monitoring for life with the number of times I've gotten one of those notices.
 
It was hosted on Amazon I believe. We had a client who wanted access to a client of ours online content and they wanted to use Amazon to host it. We were concerned about security and packability. test content was uploaded and I asked one of our guys to try to hack the test site, we had allocated a couple of days to run the tests. I left the room and proceeded down stairs, before I had even reached the next floor I had a call saying we had hacked the test site. needless to say we didn't go with the Amazon proposal. I don't know if this is typical or not but I don't much trust their security.
 
That is interesting. The link says that my account has also been compromised... except that I DON'T have an Adobe account. Very fishy. I would like to also remind everyone with credit cards from the US that AT WORST you are only responsible for the first $50 in the case of fraud, but in this case most likely $0. So I would't stress out too much. My card was once cloned at a gas station in Culver City and the perps went on a spending spree which included the purchase of a lot of gift cards. In the end the card was cancelled and I wasn't responsible for any of it.

The only real damage can occur if they somehow get ahold of people's SS numbers, which I doubt Adobe had on file. The best thing to do is change passwords on anything sensitive (as one should be doing on an ongoing basis anyway).
 
Gavin Greenwalt said:
Yeah, I got the email and a physical letter from Adobe giving me a year of credit monitoring. I could probably get free credit monitoring for life with the number of times I've gotten one of those notices.
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Ditto for me on all counts. I just replaced the credit card I use for most of my online activity. After the Adobe incident, as well as two similar incidents from other companies in the last 30 days, I figured it was time.

Look on the bright side. Adobe became aware of the hacking incident and took measures to notify their customers and hopefully protect them to some extent.

As for this site linked by the OP, it looks suspicious to me. They seem to be a reseller of identity monitoring services or something. Not Shuttermuse, the underlying database referencing site. I didn't really explore it. I entered a couple bogus email addresses and they were of course compromised. I'm betting if nothing else, they're harvesting email addresses.
 
Thank you for posting this reminder, forgot about checking it and...
Mine was hacked too. Just got a letter from my bank. They told me my CC was copied.
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
As for this site linked by the OP, it looks suspicious to me. They seem to be a reseller of identity monitoring services or something. Not Shuttermuse, the underlying database referencing site. I didn't really explore it. I entered a couple bogus email addresses and they were of course compromised. I'm betting if nothing else, they're harvesting email addresses.
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I had two Adobe accounts - and the database reference site picked them out and cross matched them as they both used the same password (my bad - LOL)... but I only used the password for Adobe anyway... so it was interesting that the database pulled the fact that another email address had the same password. Could be coincidence I suppose.

I tried a load of spurious emails in there and they returned as 'was not one of the emails hacked' - so I presume it is comparing your entry to a hacked database.
 
I've tried a couple other emails with mixed results, including an old email I haven't used with Adobe for years and it pulled up also saying that another account used the same password. That one surprised me, I never use the same password in more than one place, but perhaps it was long ago and I re-used.

Now what I have to wonder about is just where these guys got their hands on the hacked database info? To my knowledge, Adobe has not made this info available.
 
... unfortunately, the web has all kind of issues .... because a few folks went on a tad to fast and everyone else was quick to copy the mess. ... got the Adobe mail, get "fishing" mail, now ....

Since early 2000, I use different email addresses for every thing i "opt-in" or subscribe to (usually a reference to the site with date) ... and it is frightening - alarming(!!!) ... how many of the "saints" .... sell, share or are plain lazy with email data .....

crazy.
 
Corey_O said:
"No more secrets"

Line from what movie?
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Oh, I know this one! Are you thinking, "Sneakers?" If so, I think the line was, "Too many secrets," during the Scrabble game. Although maybe both lines were in the film. Love that movie.
 
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