It's been relatively quiet since the last high-profile security breach of a technology company, but that silence ended Thursday with Adobe's announcement that the company had fallen victim to a cyber attack.
Adobe announced Thursday that as many as 2.9 million customers could be affected by "sophisticated attacks" on the software provider's network which involved "the illegal access of customer information as well as source code for numerous Adobe products."
While Adobe does not believe the hackers were able to remove decrypted credit or debit card numbers from their systems, the Photoshop publisher has reset customer passwords for those potentially affected, and recommends changing passwords on other websites that use the same login.
The company is also separately notifying customers whose payment information may be at risk, and will be offering a complimentary one-year membership in a credit monitoring service.
"We are also investigating the illegal access to source code of numerous Adobe products," writes Brad Arkin, Adobe's chief security officer. "Based on our findings to date, we are not aware of any specific increased risk to customers as a result of this incident."
Needless to say, Adobe has also enlisted federal law enforcement agencies to help track down the cyber thieves, and the company believes the two separate attacks "may be related."
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