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Since a lot of us are artists and this is an artist community, I want you guys to know about this.
About a week ago, Adobe suffered a massive hacking breach, where hackers gained access to over 150 million (estimated) usernames, emails, and passwords. Adobe is the company that puts out Photoshop, and a lot of us use it.
You should take the time to change all of your passwords on any site you might use if you have been an Adobe customer. LastPass has a free service that lets you check to see if your e-mail was on Adobe's servers, thus your information could have been compromised in the attack.
My email was on the list, so I needed to go change all my passwords. Please be sure you're safe and change all of yours too, because 150 million people compromised could include you and your friends.
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Sun Nov 17, 2013 1:33pm
- Sevaia
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Posted on: Sun Nov 17, 2013 2:09pm
Certainly strange. I have Photoshop, never made an Adobe account, still my e-mailaccount came up. Will change my significant passwords anyway, just 'cause. Needed to anyway.
- JAK
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Posted on: Sun Nov 17, 2013 2:09pm
It's based off a list that the hackers posted. I tried putting in a fake email address and it came up as not being on the list, so I doubt there's anything wrong with LostPass. It's a verified service.
- ★ DS ★
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Posted on: Sun Nov 17, 2013 2:11pm
If you check out what Adobe says, sites like that may actually be harvesting email addresses for nefarious purposes: https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/customer-alert.html
- JAK
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Posted on: Sun Nov 17, 2013 2:13pm
Is it really that likely that a site with tons of good reviews would be phishing? They'd be out of business. Their facebook has 75,000+ likes, their program is available on Cnet, their twitter has 16,000+ followers...
- Moofin
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Posted on: Sun Nov 17, 2013 2:18pm
Recently my older brother, father, and I all fell for a damn-well made, verified, lots of likes/follows, etc. website that was actually a scam. Anyone who puts enough work in can look legit. I'm sticking with Adobe's password resetting, but I used LastPass to figure out which email I used with Adobe (I have many, trying to log in with them all on Adobe would be..eh).
- JAK
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Posted on: Sun Nov 17, 2013 2:20pm
Their program also has 4/5 stars in the windows app store with 500+ reviews, so there's that too... well, in any event, changing all your passwords is necessary when there's a breach this big =)
- Erithan - super busy
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Posted on: Sun Nov 17, 2013 2:38pm
erg, put my mothers pw in since she has signed up a bit ago, and it said she was one, oddly enough a few weeks ago she got some odd thing in her e-mail telling her something on her account had been changed. Wonder if it w3as related.... Thanks for the heads up, I left her a message and let her know=/
- Erithan - super busy
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Posted on: Sun Nov 17, 2013 2:38pm
er not pw e-mail @@
- Ash
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Posted on: Sun Nov 17, 2013 2:48pm
yeah my mom's email was on there too ._.;
so i let her know.
i posted on fb to make sure my friends know as well.
Posted on: Sun Nov 17, 2013 2:09pm
I recommend just using Adobe's password reset and not clicking on the email that Lastpass sends you. No telling what other information they collect.