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Adobe Systems has unveiled

Thursday that was victim of sophisticated attacks by hackers, which ccedieron data of millions of users and source code of some of its most popular programs.

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Director of the company, Brad Arkin, said in a statement that the company believes that the attackers accessed customer IDs and passwords encrypted Adobe and took 2.9 data million customers.

class=”imp”> Pirates accessed the source code of various Adobe programs, including Acrobat, ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder That information includes customer names, numbers encrypted payment card , expiration dates, and information relating to orders, he said.

Arkin said hackers also gained access to the source code of several Adobe programs, including Acrobat, ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder.

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a cybersecurity news site, reported earlier that a week ago found what appeared to be a gigantic booty Adobe source code on the server hackers believed to have been responsible for infiltrate into three major data providers in the United States.

also said he discovered the code while conducting research the leaks in Dun & Bradstreet Corp, Kroll Background America Inc. of Altegrity Inc. and LexisNexis Inc of Reed Elsevier. These attacks were revealed on September 25.

precaution is erasing passwords of some customers , which notified of the change through an email and advising them to change their data in other Internet services if they used them the same user names and passwords.

also is informing users whose information was compromised bank on how to act and has sought the cooperation of financial institutions to contribute to protecting customer accounts.