7.5 million Adobe Creative Cloud accounts were exposed in data breachPassword and credit card information was not leaked.
What you need to know
Security researchers discovered an exposed Adobe Creative Cloud database earlier this month.
The personal information of nearly 7.5 million users was accessible.
Passwords and credit card details were not vulnerable.
Adobe suffered a serious security snafu earlier this month when security researcher Bob Diachenko, in collaboration with cybersecurity and privacy advocacy firm Comparitech, discovered an exposed database belonging to the company's popular Creative Cloud subscription service. The records were accessible to anyone and did not require a password.
Thankfully, users' passwords and payment details were not kept among the data that was exposed. However, a laundry list of personal information belonging to nearly 7.5 million Adobe Creative Cloud users was accessible via the database. This included:
Email addresses
Account creation date
Which Adobe products they use
Subscription status
Whether the user...
Source:
7.5 million Adobe Creative Cloud accounts were exposed in data breach
