Adobe has paid an undisclosed amount to settle customer claims and faces US$1.2 million in legal fees after its 2013 data breach which compromised the details of 38 million users.
The creative content king was served a November 2013 class action lawsuit filed in California in which it is claimed “shoddy” security practises lead to the breach.
The breach occurred when hackers raided a backup server on which they found, and subsequently published, a 3.8GB file containing 152 million usernames and poorly-encrypted passwords, plus customers’ credit card numbers.
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