So last month, Adobe got hacked and about 38 Million users IDs, passwords, and Credit Card #s were stolen. As part of their remediation plan, Adobe offered 1 year of free credit monitoring service to those who were affected. The brutal irony comes from the below excerpt. Link to the full article is the bottom of this post. As many readers have pointed out in comments on previous KrebsOnSecurity posts, Adobe has offered a year’s worth of credit monitoring to customers whose encrypted credit card data was stolen in the breach. As it happens, Adobe’s offering comes through Experian, one of the three major credit bureaus and a company that is still reeling from a security breach in which the company was tricked into selling consumer records directly to an online identity theft service. krebsonsecurity/2013/10/adobe-breach-impacted-at-least-38-million-users/?goback=%2Egmr_38615%2Egde_38615_member_5801530244640821248#%21
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 03:53:21 +0000
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