Dive Brief:

• Adobe says customer information including IDs and encrypted passwords were hacked, affecting nearly 3 million customers worldwide.
• The data accessed includes names, encrypted credit or debit card numbers and order information; the company says it thinks the payment information was not decrypted.
• The company says customers affected will be notified by email and told to change their passwords; it also recommends customers change passwords on any site with the same user ID and password as an Adobe account.

Dive Insight:

Adobe, the maker of software such as Acrobat, Photoshop and ColdFusion, was an early entry into the education software market. The company's single biggest market is education.