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150 million accounts leaked - check here if you are affected

article published on 5 November, 2013

About a month ago Adobe confirmed that their systems were breached and user account details were compromised. Security researchers and hackers got their hands on the data and news started circulating the web. The leaked data contains, among other data, email addresses and encrypted passwords. The encryption key is so far unknown, but it could be just a matter of time before all the data ... [ read the full article ]

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Oner

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5. November 2013 @ 16:30

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That's odd. Where is all the outrage at Adobe for this? I mean it's their fault they got attacked...right?

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scorpNZ

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5. November 2013 @ 17:53

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Email phishing scam if ever i saw one Jari explain why the email checker link you posted DOES NOT go to an official adobe website in fact there's no info on it at all as to who owns it.

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Oner who is this Jari person who made this topic & can that link be trusted ?

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Ketola

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5. November 2013 @ 18:27

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Jari person here, CTO @ AfterDawn.com. Thank you for your concern. I understand your point completely.

It could well be a phishing scam, but I find it highly doubtful. I added a disclaimer about this, though. In any case the service seems to accurately match my accounts that Adobe has confirmed compromised, and hasn't given a positive match on any of the random addresses I've tried it with. So at least there seems to be a valid backend there.

Furthermore the site, adobe.cynic.al, has been quite widely linked to. Obviously endorsement by many isn't guarantee of quality. =) I'm not aware of any such search engine provided by Adobe. I would link to one if one existed.

We'll build our own checker if need be. We have done it in the past for various leaks in Finland - in much smaller scale obviously.

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11. November 2013 @ 12:30

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Forget Adobe, I feel like my browser gets hijacked every time I visit this site. Seriously guys, are you hurting that bad for $? Browsing this page is like walking through a minefield. I see some space over there -> where you can put another ad.

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ddp

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11. November 2013 @ 13:18

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