They are continuing to investigate the details. Our operations and security team caught this at what we believe to be the beginning stages of a sophisticated attack.
In a statement sent to CNET, an Evernote representative said the breach of the company's systems "follows a similar pattern of the many high profile attacks on other Internet-based companies that have taken place over the last several weeks." The representative also addressed our question about what Evernote is doing to reassure current and potential users about the safety of its products. There has been speculation that the Chinese military was behind the hacks at the newspapers - though the Chinese government denies this - and that the Apple, Facebook, and Twitter hacks may have been the work of Eastern European cybercriminals. And of course there were the high profile hacks at The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal that helped prompt President Obama to sign an executive order on cybersecurity. Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter have all been victimized recently. The notice goes on to walk users through the password-reset process and to give tips on how to create an effective password.Įvernote is just the latest company to suffer at the hands of hackers.
(In technical terms, they are hashed and salted.)" The company emphasized in the notice that "the passwords stored by Evernote are protected by one-way encryption. What was accessed, the company said, were usernames, e-mails addresses associated with Evernote accounts, and encrypted passwords.
"We also have no evidence that any payment information for Evernote Premium or Evernote Business customers was accessed." "In our security investigation, we have found no evidence that any of the content you store in Evernote was accessed, changed or lost," the company said in the statement, which was e-mailed to users and posted online.
Apparently, though, no sensitive financial information was stolen, and no user content was affected: The company said in a security notice that some user data had been accessed and that Evernote was requiring all users to reset their passwords. Yet another company has fallen victim to a hack, with attackers breaking into systems at Evernote, maker of a Web-based note-taking application used by about 50 million people.
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