Adobe's source code was parked on hackers' unprotected server
Hackers capitalize on other people’s mistakes. But they make their own as well.
Case in point: A massive breach of Adobe Systems’ network was discovered after the source code of numerous products, including the Web application development platform ColdFusion, sat parked on a hacker’s unprotected Web server open to the Internet.
The breach, which also encompassed 2.9 million encrypted customer credit card records, was announced by Adobe on Oct. 3. Adobe had already been investigating a breach when Alex Holden, chief information security officer of Hold Security, independently found what turned out to be the company’s source code on a hacking gang’s server.
Adobe’s source code “was hidden, but it was not cleverly hidden,” Holden said.
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