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I can only imagine the deluge of support requests they must have gotten from the 90% of their users who couldn't work this out on their own. The point of this story is that it was handled in a very user-unfriendly manner. Then, it took several attempts to actually change my password - their servers must have been slammed over this. Totally puzzled, I Googled a bit and found the news. Still looks like a hack attempt on my account." Next move was to look for the usual email one gets when requesting a password reset. Someone who had my email address asked for a reset. It took my password and went to a "reset your password" page. I was like "WTF? Has someone stolen my account? My password is strong, how can this be?" So I tried to login to the website. I first learned of this when a not so friendly message popped up on my Mac's Evernote app saying something like "your password has been changed" and it wouldn't sync any more. They don't recommend changing passwords, they are forcing all users to change their passwords. This means that, in an abundance of caution, we are requiring all users to reset their Evernote account passwords,” Evernote said.Headline is wrong. “While our password encryption measures are robust, we are taking additional steps to ensure that your personal data remains secure. “Even though this information was accessed, the passwords stored by Evernote are protected by one-way encryption. “The investigation has shown, however, that the individual(s) responsible were able to gain access to Evernote user information, which includes usernames, email addresses associated with Evernote accounts and encrypted passwords. “We also have no evidence that any payment information for Evernote Premium or Evernote Business customers was accessed. “In our security investigation, we have found no evidence that any of the content you store in Evernote was accessed, changed or lost,” Evernote said in its blog. While the hackers were unable to access the secure area of Evernote’s system, they were able to gain access to user information, such as usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords.Īs a precaution to protect its users’ data Evernote says it is rolling out a password reset. The news comes just after Apple, Facebook and Microsoft revealed their networks came under attack from hackers. Cloud-based personal organiser Evernote has confirmed that it has discovered and blocked suspicious activity that it deems an organised and co-ordinated attack.