All 50 million users of the cloud-based note-taking service, Evernote, have been asked to reset their passwords after their security was breached by hackers. The California-based company released a statement on their website that “suspicious activity” had been discovered on the network in “a coordinated attempt to access secure areas of the Evernote service.”
CTO at Evernote, Dave Engburg, stated that though user names and email addresses were accessed, passwords were protected by their one-way encryption system. They added that there is “no evidence” of payments details being accessed and no stored content had been changed or lost. The hackers have not been identified.
Breaches of security of larger services are becoming more common with Apple, Facebook and Twitter recently revealing that they had been victims of similar attacks.


