Adobe did get hacked and did send emails but they would NEVER set your password for you. Their email suggested that you go reset your password. Attached is screenshot. Sounds like you got one of those suspicious emails they are talking about in their email.

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Adobe did get hacked and did send emails but they would NEVER set your password for you. Their email suggested that you go reset your password. Attached is screenshot. Sounds like you got one of those suspicious emails they are talking about in their email.

This is the same message I just received.  Note it says "we have reset your password...."  then goes on to say visit the link to create a new password.  If this e-mail is legitimate I'll go ahead and use it.  I just get suspicious when this comes in and I have no way to verify whether or not it's a scam.


Thanks

Oh ok, sorry, didn't notice that line in there before. I just verified that I did indeed reset the password on Adobe by going to Adobe.com and logging in using the new password I created. I changed it using the link in that email. I think if that email took you somewhere besides Adobe, even though it looked like Adobe's site, then the new password I created wouldnt work. That's my logic anyway. Hope I am right. 

edit: I get popups from Adobe sometimes saying to update Adobe Acrobat. I read somewhere that best practice is not to use that popup to update, because that was one way hackers were getting in. Instead, always go to the adobe site and do it from there, or from within the app itself.
 

Last week I've received a call from the bank that possibly my card has been compromised. I recently purchased a LR5 license via Adobe, so I told them (to bank employee) that very possibly via Adobe. Regardless, I received the standard, canned e-mail from Adobe, regarding the password reset.
There are too many lies around this Adobe hack. I'm a web developer and programmer. Come on, one who hacks and gains access to the users table at any site it's clever enough to figure out e-mails, passwords and credit card numbers. This is the point. Adobe says in mst of the cases, that "your credit card data MAY not been compromised" (??).
But you know what? They deserve. With prices in Europe becoming very fast from dollars to euros+VAT, this is a nasty business, despite the fact that they sell an electronic product (and the paid money goes directly to the US destination via the electronic payment). Regardless of the support and doing business areas. So the $50 price becomes €50*1.24(VAT) meaning a totally another price.