Adobe Password Security Criticised by Experts

Earlier this week an allegedly Egyptian hacker calling himself ViruS_HimA hacked into an Adobe serverand stole more than 150,000 emails and encrypted passwords of Adobe employees and customers/partners of the firm including members of the US military, Google, Nasa and the UK government.

To validate his claim, ViruS_HimA published a limited set of records for users with email addresses ending in adobe.com, .mil and .gov.