Adobe Has to Pay $1 Million As Fine For Major 2013 Data Breach 

 

 

Do you remember Adobe’s 2013 Data Breach? Let us remind you. Adobe had suffered a major data breach in 2013 due to source code leakage of its Adobe Reader, Photoshop, Acrobat and ColdFusion web application platform. Around 38 Million Adobe users were the victims of this data breach. The login credentials of affected users were in the hands of hackers. Moreover, 3 Million encrypted credit card details had been stolen by the hackers. A lawsuit had been filed by 15 states attorney generals against Adobe for this major data breach. North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper announced on Monday, November 11 that Adobe has to pay $1 Million for 2013 Data Breach.

 

"This decision has been made by Attorney General Roy Cooper in the presence of his counterparts of 14 other states. According to Attorney General, the hacked Adobe servers contains personal information and credit card information of affected users. The announced fine of $1 Million will work out about $1.80 per victim."

 

More About Adobe 2013 Data Breach

Adobe was unaware about this data breach. The company didn’t had any idea that their data has been breached by intruders. According to a report of Maura Healey (Massachusetts Attorney General), One day in September 2013 Adobe received an alert that data storage capacity of one of its application is about to end. After an investigation, Adobe found that various cyber-attacks have been performed by hackers to decrypt stored credit card details of its users.

 

"Adobe also found that one of its public interacting servers was compromised by hackers. The personal information of abode users had been stolen by the hackers from this public server. Usernames, Email Addresses, Telephone numbers, Passwords, Encrypted payment card details including card numbers, expiry date, and CVV details were included in stolen data."

 

Attorney General Roy Cooper said that all the companies and Government must do more efforts to protect customer data from cyber crooks. The other companies can learn from this fine that if they will not protect user’s data, same could happen with them. Further, he added that the amount of fine depends on the size of company and number of affected users. If we talk about Adobe, it has a number of storefronts for its various products. The company is storing its user data on different servers. These internal servers are connected with each other. The breached data was located at those internal servers that were no longer as protected as its globally centralized storefront.

 

Conclusion

Hackers are very smart and they are finding new ways to target companies. In a case, hackers were using “Delilah Malware” to spy on employees of various companies. After recording their personal videos, hackers were blackmailing them to become an insider of their company. Companies should protect user’s data as well as their employee’s data to survive for a long time in the cyberspace.  Companies should understand that if they have to defeat hackers, then need to keep themselves two step ahead of hackers. Governments of many countries are doing efforts for it. Recently, United Kingdom has announced that it will open its first National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in London. A team of 700 security experts will protect every industry of UK from cyber-attacks.

 

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