I fully agree.
This story is about a break-in in Adobe's network. This is not cloud storage, and it's not your computer being attacked. Nothing
in the stolen data gives anyone a link to your computer, let alone access to is.
Indeed, it's not good news, but no worse than a similar attack on say Amazon. In order to attack your data on your computer,
someone will need to get access to it first. And if you have a decently configured router and firewall, incoming connections are
just dropped, unless you have specifically allowed them (the verification of Adobe software is done from your computer, so it's not
an incoming connection).
For various reasons, Adobe has to allow incoming connections on at least some of their computers (web servers, code repositories
and versioning systems, sales handling). At home, in general, you don't have to allow any incoming connections (for most users).
My router only allows incoming ping requests, and I've got a firewall on my computer that only allows http requests and one or two others
(Note that that computer is behind the router...). Unfortunately, not all routers are configured that way...
There are perhaps legitimate reasons not to connect your photo-storing and -editing computer to the internet, but this isn't one of them.
And this whole case has nothing whatsoever to do with Adobe's Creative Cloud system, so we could perhaps stop hammering on the Creative Cloud
every time something goes wrong with any computer at Adobe's, Kelby, or whoever. For me, that is not giving information, that's trolling, and spreading disinformation.
Not saying I agree with the system, but subscription is a common business model for professional software (Matlab, anyone? and I think even Microsoft uses
it for site licenses). Adobe is just one of the first to apply it to 'consumer' software (let's not forget Photoshop etc. is professional software)
And not sure if it's possible, but I'd like to ask the moderators to move the part of this thread dealing with 'threats to CC' to a separate thread? (say from #71 onwards).
Reason: it has nothing to do with alternatives to Photoshop or Creative Cloud.