Has adobe been hacked?

I think after 10-15 year's their would be a huge cost to save your Personal data.

Nothing would be personal anymore.

I just got a notice today that adobe.com was hacked on 9/11/18 and my email and password were exposed.  I tried to reach them personally too, but the chat agent closed the chat when they saw my question.  Which was - why wasn't I notified.  So disappointing not to be proactively notified!

paypal was hacked but I'm not aware of Adobe cases

Unfortunately it's common business practice for large corporations to sell your personal contact information to mailing list warehouses that sell their the mailing lists they compile to anyone with a few bucks.

There's nothing illegal about it either.  It's usually buried somewhere  deep in the "user agreement" and looks something like "we may share certain information with entities under our parent umbrella or which we are entered into contracts with....etc."

I once caught Sprint communication red handed selling my personal information but there was nothing i could do.

It's possible your personal information was stolen from Adobe's servers but it's much more likely that they sold it to a company

that resells it.  Like I said. It's common practice in massive media & communication companies regardless of whatever promises

& denials they make. 

How long have you been using that email?

https://petapixel.com/2013/11/07/number-adobe-accounts-hacked-now-150m-check/

You are posting this in the Acrobat Reader forum. It should be in either forum comments or the lounge.

But just because you have received some spam emails to your Adobe ID account means just about nothing. Spammers use programs to generate email addresses. They send out emails to those generated addresses and if they don't get bounced then they know it is a real address that someone is using.

So more than likely that is how your email address.

So unless you have used something like 1#&"pete[=)conner%! @ SomeEmailServerAddress . com you will eventually get some spam coming through.

That doesn't mean someone hacked Adobe.com or someone at Adobe gave out your email address.

Also the spammers do not need to know the password for your Adobe ID to send spam email to that email address.