Adobe has failed its customers and ‘should hang their heads in shame’ after hackers stole 38 million customers’ data, according to an IT expert.
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Simon Bain, founder and CTO at technology firm Simplexo, said that the ‘astronomical’ figure should provide a warning to other companies.
He said: “It is thought that at least 38 million customer details were stolen from Adobe’s database – for perspective that is roughly half the population of the UK. That is an astronomical figure and for a company of Adobe’s size and stature they should hang their heads in shame at such a loss.
“This should serve as a huge warning to all organisations – every week there are more and more database attacks. Firms need to understand that hacking will always be with us. It is not something that we can stop.”
He added that companies should never store unencrypted customer information, and that there are software solutions available that provide easy encryption.
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