Not only was it one of the largest breaches of username databases ever, with 150,000,000 records exposed, it was also one of the most embarrassing.
The leaked data revealed that Adobe had been storing its users' passwords ineptly - something that was surprising, because storing passwords much more safely would have been no more difficult.
Following our popular article explaining what Adobe did wrong, a number of readers asked us, "Why not publish an article showing the rest of us how to do it right?"