![]() ![]() "As far as we can tell (and we spent a lot of effort looking into it) no user data was compromised. The hackers did, however, gain access to user information, including usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords, though Evernote says that the passwords are "protected by one-way encryption" and that they are "hashed and salted." (In other words, they are harder to access.) "We also have no evidence that any payment information for Evernote Premium or Evernote Business customers was accessed." ![]() The good news is that company says that it did not find any evidence that any content that users stored on Evernote was accessed, changed or lost. Note taking app Evernote has sent out a notification to all of its 48 million plus users to reset their passwords after the company's Operations & Security team "discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access secure areas of the Evernote Service," it was announced in a blogpost Saturday. Now yety another big name website is coming forward to say that, it too, has become the victim of a hacker. Hacking is no joke, even if some of the less mature out there think that they can simply use it as a way to get attention. Since the beginning of February, a rash of major Internet properties have been seeing themselves become the victim of hackers, including Twitter, Facebook, Zendesk, Apple, and Microsoft. Twitter, Facebook, Zendesk, Apple, and Microsoft all saw security breaches in the last month ![]()
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