#2 Adobe gets hacked, loses millions of passwords

Adobe, being one of the world’s biggest technology companies showed us that they are just as vulnerable to hackers as us; maybe even more so as they have a lot at stake. Earlier this year, in the month of October, the company discovered that they have been breached and were forced to announce that over 3 million passwords were compromised. But the actual number turned out to be a whole lot more. Even though the company later said that about 38 million passwords were lost, independent security firms later found evidence that up to 150 million accounts were compromised.

What’s worse is that, encrypted data such as credit card numbers and expiration dates were also accessed for at least some of those accounts. While the encryption might keep those data safe, the fact that such sensitive information made its way into the hackers’ hands is damaging enough.

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