Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #51516
From: Stephen van Vuuren <stephen@sv2studios.com>
Subject: RE: [AE] My Adobe hacked card number was just used
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 03:02:15 +0000
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>

> Really sorry to hear this Stephen. I hope you aren't put in too much of a hardship because of it. Not that it is a huge difference, but was the card you were using a credit card or a debit card

It was a debit card unfortunately so right now those funds are gone until the bank credits them back. I told a couple of people to hold checks I just wrote L I guess it’s good thing I’m launching a Kickstarter soon J

 

stephen van vuuren

336.202.4777

 

http://www.insaturnsrings.com/

http://www.sv2dcp.com/

http://www.sv2studios.com/

 

A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Stanley Kubrick

 

From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of Greg Balint
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 9:46 PM
To: After Effects Mail List
Subject: Re: [AE] My Adobe hacked card number was just used

 

Really sorry to hear this Stephen. I hope you aren't put in too much of a hardship because of it.

Not that it is a huge difference, but was the card you were using a credit card or a debit card? I used my business account bank card (debit) for my account and I'd hate to find it all drained from something like this. 

I was going to post this earlier, but I didn't want to raise anyone's paranoia levels.

I found a forum at anon news dot org where people were discussing a file called users.tar.gz. basically a 9Gb zip file with everyone's info.  The email addresses were plaintext listed next to encrypted password info. Not sure what else was in it, as this was just from a copy paste from one of the anonymous users.

The discussion was about how to list them properly to feed them into a brute force decrypting program. Others were talking about how they could download the file from that "bay" torrent site.

Anyway, I'm really sorry to hear this has affected you, and I would just caution everyone out there that this sort of disbursement of information could possibly last a while as that info is out there and people can choose to use it and decrypt it whenever they like. Could be tomorrow or a year from now.

I'll be calling my bank tonight to get my card canceled and another issued.

///Greg Balint
//Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer
/321.514.4839
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On Nov 8, 2013 9:01 PM, "Stephen van Vuuren" <stephen@sv2studios.com> wrote:

Okay, I just got my letter a few days ago and was going to get one of credit monitoring services this weekend, but too late, my card was already obviously out in the wild. About $1000 of charges to Electronic Arts and comic stores (insert stereotypical hacker joke here). Not fun for a starving filmmaker literally in the process of launching a Kickstarter in a couple of days L

 

I would advise all who had a credit card number with Adobe no matter if you got a letter or not – to cancel the card. It’s a hassle but not as much as hassle as this.

 

Needless to say, this is a bummer – but let me example prevent others here from suffering the same.

 

stephen van vuuren

336.202.4777

 

http://www.insaturnsrings.com/

http://www.sv2dcp.com/

http://www.sv2studios.com/

 

A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Stanley Kubrick

 

 
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