FYI - Adobe account compromise

[Andrew Daviel <advax () TRIUMF CA>]

FYI

Per http://xkcd.com/1286/ and others, hackers have leaked 130 million 
user records from Adobe, containing email address, 3DES encrypted 
password, and hint, with lines like:

63498551-|--|-mxxxxxxx () wisc edu-|-eYxxxxxxxxxxxxx==-|-kunsan cutie|--

2 million of these are .edu addresses

> From what I have read, the passwords are encrypted using a symmetric key 
but the key is unknown. For now. As a mailing list for spam, it needs 
washing, badly.

All that user education is having some effect, at least. 
The most popular password is now "123456", an improvement over
"12345" a couple of years ago and "1234" before that.
Per http://stricture-group.com/files/adobe-top100.txt

See also
http://www.hydraze.org/2013/10/some-information-on-adobe-135m-users-leak/
http://www.leemangold.com/2013/11/02/adobe-data-breach-faq/
http://tobtu.com/adobe.php
http://anonnews.org/forum/post/64784
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/how-an-epic-blunder-by-adobe-could-strengthen-hand-of-password-crackers/
Password reset: https://www.adobe.com/ca/account/sign-in.adobedotcom.html

I'm not sure it's really a big cause for concern, though I guess a lot of 
people use the same password for everything and there's their password 
hint "dog's name" sitting out there. The etymology of user names on 
Hotmail should we worth a sociology paper or two.


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Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
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