Oops — Adobe leaves 7.5 million Creative Cloud accounts exposed

Earlier this month, Adobe was the victim of a serious security incident that exposed the personal information of nearly 7.5 million users belonging to the company’s popular Creative Cloud service. Per security firm Comparitech, the software giant left an Elasticsearch server unsecured that was accessible on the web without any password or authentication. The leak, which was discovered on October 19, was plugged on the same day by Adobe upon alerting the company. “Late last