Last Updated on May 24, 2015
Hard Times for Adobe. On the evening of Tuesday, November 13, 2012, immediately after the claims of an alleged Egyptian hacker dubbed ViruS_HimA, the company has taken offline the connectusers.com forum.
In his pastebin post, the hacker claims to have breached an unidentified Adobe server, gaining full access to it and dumping the whole Database: over 150,000 emails, passwords with full data of Adobe customers and partners with some users belonging to Adobe, Google, NASA, Military Institutions, etc.).
As a proof of his breach he has published some screenshot, and a text file containing 645 records with emails belonging to some selected domains: “adobe.com”, “.mil” and “.gov”.
After the rumors, the breach has been finally confirmed by Adobe in a blog post where the company has announced the decision to take the forum offline and to reset the passwords.
Meanwhile more details about the breach are emerging: the hacker allegedly exploited a SQL Injection vulnerability, and also the cracked passwords from the breach show a lack of security with no salt, no iteration, and finally no complexity. Unfortunately we are getting more and more used to attacks exploiting SQLi and to poorly-protected passwords.
Unfortunately Adobe continues to attract the attention of cyber-attackers. At the end of September the company discovered a targeted attack against a build server accessing the code signing infrastructure with the consequence that the certificates of 5000+ applications were revoked, one month and half later the passwords of 150,000 forum users are at risk.
