On October 3rd 2013 Adobe (the world's largest supplier of software and services for the design and media industries) discovered unauthorised access had been made to their systems, leading to the compromise of some 2.9 million user accounts (including encrypted credit/debit card details) and the source code for their web application server - Cold Fusion.
Update 04/10/2013 19:54: Adobe also believes that the source code to Acrobat (the tool used to produce and read PDF files) may have been compromised - this could have serious repercussions should anyone use it to distribute malicious, but official-looking updates to the millions of computers that run Acrobat world-wide.
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