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Adobe data breach (2013)

In October 2013, 153 million Adobe accounts were breached with each containing an internal ID, username, email, encrypted password and a password hint in plain text. The password cryptography was poorly done and many were quickly resolved back to plain text.

Victim
Adobe
records
152.4M
SectorFinance

Imported from Have I Been Pwned β€” pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2013-10-04, Adobe was affected by a data breach. Approximately 152,445,165 accounts were exposed. In October 2013, 153 million Adobe accounts were breached with each containing an internal ID, username, email, encrypted password and a password hint in plain text. The password cryptography was poorly done and many were quickly resolved back to plain text.

Sources

  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Adobe
  2. adobe.comhttps://adobe.com

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