They could likely use those passwords to break into other accounts because many people use the same passwords for multiple accounts, he said. Encrypted passwords may be accessibleĮven though the company believes the stolen passwords were encrypted, the attackers may have been able to access them in plain text by one of several methods, including breaking the algorithm that Adobe used to scramble them, said Marcus Carey, a security researcher and expert on cyber attacks, who formerly worked as an investigator with the National Security Agency. She said the company is still investigating to determine how much invalid account information was breached and is in the process of notifying affected users.
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3, the company also reported that the attackers stole source code to three other products: Acrobat, ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder.Īdobe spokeswoman Heather Edell said the software maker believes the attackers also obtained access to "many invalid Adobe IDs, inactive Adobe IDs, Adobe IDs with invalid encrypted passwords and test account data." On Tuesday, it revealed that about 38 million records from that database were stolen. 3, saying attackers took credit card information and other data from nearly 3 million customers' accounts.Īdobe also said that the hackers accessed an undisclosed number of Adobe IDs and encrypted passwords that were stored in a separate database. The software maker also said that hackers had stolen part of the source code to Photoshop editing software that is widely used by professional photographers. Adobe Systems Inc said on Tuesday that the scope of a cyber-security breach disclosed nearly a month ago was far bigger than initially reported, with attackers obtaining data on more than 38 million customer accounts.