The recent, Adobe data breach, has prompted Facebook to force a password reset for any user it suspects of reusing their compromised Adobe password on its site. A number of other sites have followed suit, with more likely to do so in the future. If you reuse your passwords on multiple sites, the compromise of one site means you are exposed anywhere else you use that information. If you use your Adobe password anywhere else, you should change them as soon as possible. Why? The Adobe breach included the loss of encrypted passwords for between 38 million and 150 million users. Many, if not all of these encrypted passwords have already been guessed or even unencrypted. It means that your email address and password stored with Adobe, is known by hackers, who will invariably be looking for other places where this might be reused. Because so many people commonly reuse the same password across many of the sites they use, Facebook acted to protect its users by analysing the breached data to identify any of its customers who reused the same email and password on Facebook. Facebook has sent a notification to affected users it identified and if required, you will have been forced to change your password. If you think you might have reused your password from Adobe on any other sites, you should change them.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 03:28:47 +0000
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