Adobe has to pay a million dollars in US for major data breach from 2013

Adobe has to pay $1 million to 15 US states over the 2013 data breach in which 38 million Adobe accounts were stolen. According to the states, accounts of 552,000 residents were involved in the leak.

The amount that Adobe is paying is a settlement that stems from the investigation that was initiated by several US states after the data breach became known. The participating states claimed that Adobe had not done enough to ensure the security of customer data.

It was not disclosed what the $1 million settlement amount was based on. In addition to paying the money, Adobe will also introduce new policies to prevent such a data breach in the future, according to the North Carolina Department of Justice.

In October 2013, Adobe disclosed that hackers had penetrated its servers and, in addition to Photoshop’s source code, had also stolen data from 2.9 million customers. That same month, it turned out that there were many more users, in total the data breach concerned 150 million Adobe accounts, of which 38 million are active accounts. It was later revealed that the stolen passwords had not been hashed.