It turns out that the massive hack which was perpetrated on Adobe has had ‘downstream’ repercussions.
Evernote is the latest to inform its customers about possible effects of the Adobe hack. If you received an email from Evernote (check your spam folder!) please follow the recommendations below:
“There were published reports recently of a security breach at Adobe that may have exposed private information, including Adobe passwords, email addresses and passwords hints of millions of users. The list of compromised Adobe accounts has been uploaded to the web. We compared this list to our user email addresses and found that the email address you used to register for an Evernote account is on the list of exposed Adobe accounts.
Evernote has not been compromised and is not connected to this incident, but if you used the same password for Adobe and Evernote, then you should change your Evernote password now.”
You can check if your email address was compromised here: https://lastpass.com/adobe/ and you can trust this lastpass https url.
Mine was. You should change your adobe password immediately if it was compromised. Also, if you used your Adobe password anywhere else, change that site’s password as well. Use only unique passwords in the future for every site requiring a login.
lastpass recommends the following steps be taken:
- Visit www.adobe.com/go/passwordreset to change your Adobe password.
- Check if you have re-used your Adobe password or username on any other websites and if so, change those passwords as well.
The LastPass security challenge can assist you in doing so.
- Enter your Adobe account email address below to find out if your personal information was leaked. If we find that your information was leaked, then we'll also show you your Adobe password hint.
- Check if your Adobe password hint lowers the strength of any passwords you have to any websites you use. If so, change those passwords too.
Source:
http://betanews.com/2013/11/22/evernote-begins-warning-customers-about-adobe-hack/