U.S. software company Adobe said on Tuesday that the company suffered hacker attack situation is more serious than originally reported which they announced in about a month ago. The scale is also much larger than expected with a total of more than 38 million users of data theft .
Adobe also confirmed that the hacker also stole part of the original code for photo editing software "Photoshop" which use by many professional photographers. The company is still investigating and hoping to track down the source of the hacker as soon as possible.
The company was publicly announced on October 3 which mentioned the company computer system was hacked and there are nearly three million user's credit card information and other personal information being stolen. However, the number of customers affected announced right now was 10 times than the originally reported amount. The spokesman pointed out that actually this hackers enter to another data system to stole more user's name and encrypted password.
The company said earlier in this month, hackers steal original code for another three products of Acrobat, ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder software . It turned out that even the original code for always popular photo editing software Photoshop was also stolen.
Spokeswoman Edel said the company believes that many lapsed user name, user name which is not active for long time, failure encrypted password user name, and some experimental account number data have been falling into the hands of hackers. Currently they are still investigating the amount of invalid user name which was stolen, and proceeded to inform potentially affected customers.
