After hacking Twitter, Facebook and other high-profile sites, it seems that hackers have now targeted the popular note taking application Evernote. Although, it is not clear whether it’s the same hackers, the company has made it known that a breach in its security has been observed. As a result of that Evernote has forward a request to all 50 million users of the company to reset their account passwords just as a precaution. The Redwood City-based company issued the statement late on Saturday, March 2nd and stated that hacker had accessed sensitive information of its customers.
The company noted in its blog post that, “individual(s) responsible were able to gain access to Evernote user information, which includes usernames, email addresses associated with Evernote accounts and encrypted passwords,” but apart from it the hacker was not able to access other payment details.
In an email to TechCrunch, CEO and founder of Evernote, Phil Libin stated that, “We don’t store any user payment info, so no payment info can be compromised.” In addition to this, Libin also wrote in the email that everything is fine, but when they try to access the website things perhaps are not working as usual at this point in time, as he wrote that, “We just pushed out a password reset, so the servers are going to be saturated for a bit. Everything is up, although response is choppy. There’s no threat to user data that we’re aware of.”
Talking to TechCrunch a spokesperson of Evernote told the site that the suspicious activity first observed a two days ago, on Thursday, February 28:
“On February 28th, the Evernote Operations & Security team became aware of unusual and potentially malicious activity on the Evernote service that warranted a deeper look. We discovered that a person or persons had gained access to usernames, email addresses and encrypted user passwords. In our ongoing analysis, we have found no evidence that there has been unauthorized access to the contents of any user account or to any payment information of Evernote Premium and Evernote Business customers.”
Besides this, Evernote has also sent out direct messages through social media and emails and according to their sporkesperson, “[We] encourage any user with questions or concerns to contact Evernote support directly.”
As far as the change in password is concerned, all users are required to make changes to all Evernote apps, which include Evernote Business, Evernote Hello and Evernote Food.
Source: TechCrunch, VancouverSun
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