March 11, 2013
'Evernote is Dead to me'
By Mae Kowalke TMCnet Contributor
Recently, an alarming e-mail jumped out among the many corporate communications that cross my e-mail inbox. Evernote (News - Alert) had been hacked, and it somewhat casually asked me to change my password.
This was not a minor breach, either. Evernote apparently had been compromised enough that the company felt it necessary to e-mail all of its 50 million users and ask that they each change their password to the site. The e-mail further explained that it didn’t think user data had been compromised, but that e-mail and passwords had been stolen.
"Even though this information was accessed, the passwords stored by Evernote are protected by one-way encryption," the statement read. "(In technical terms, they are hashed and salted... Read More
