Adobe hack affected 38 million users - not three million

Sooraj Shah
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Photoshop source code also stolen, Adobe confirms

Adobe, known for its Reader and Acrobat software, has confirmed that the cyber attack it recently suffered impacted 38 million users - more than 10 times the 2.9 million customers it had said were ...

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