Adobe engineers used reversible encryption to scramble the passwords contained in a 9.3-gigabyte file that’s now available online. Surprisingly, they flouted almost universally recognized best practices that call for stored passwords to be protected by bcrypt or another one-way cryptographic hashing algorithm.

other than microsoft, there is no company that has screwed security up more than adobe. holes galore in pdf and flash and now this. also the entire source code of their products got stolen recently.