How Facebook Is Protecting Its Users From A Security Breach At Adobe

Facebook is taking steps to protect its users from a security breach at Adobe that may have compromised the encrypted account data of up to 150 million of its users, requiring users who were impacted by the Adobe issue to change their Facebook passwords and answer some additional security questions in order to access their accounts, according to Krebs on Security.

Facebook is taking steps to protect its users from a security breach at Adobe that may have compromised the encrypted account data of up to 150 million of its users, requiring users who were impacted by the Adobe issue to change their Facebook passwords and answer some additional security questions in order to access their accounts, according to Krebs on Security.

Adobe first reported Oct. 3 that hackers gained access to nearly 3 million encrypted customer credit-card records, according to Krebs on Security, which added in early November that Adobe notified more than 38 million of its users that their account information had potentially been compromised.

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