After being hacked, Evernote, quite responsibly, has sent out emails to its users informing them of the security breach – and letting them know that it has decided to reset all passwords.
The email goes on to give some password advice – including a warning:
Never click on ‘reset password’ requests in emails – instead go directly to the service.
That’s a very sound piece of advice, because of the obvious threat – after millions of Evernote customers had their usernames and email addresses stolen – of phishing email attacks.
But take a closer look at the email that Evernote has sent out, with the subject line “Evernote Security Notice: Service-wide Password Reset”…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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