Info on millions of accounts just out sitting there in the open
Adobe has pulled offline a public-facing poorly secured Elasticsearch database containing information on 7.5 million Creative Cloud customers.
The cloud-based silo was uncovered by infosec detective Bob Diachenko, who reported it to Adobe last week.
The exposed records include email addresses, account creation dates, details of products purchased, Creative Cloud subscription statuses, member IDs, countries of origin, subscription payment statuses, whether the user is an Adobe employee, and other bits of metadata.
For those out of the loop, Creative Cloud is the online successor to Adobe's software suite of things like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere. Users pay a monthly fee to access the various apps rather than buy them on CD.
The database contains pretty bog standard information about subscribers, and there were no payment card details nor ..
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