<p>It's the email every Internet business dreads having to compose to its customers but last weekend Evernote became only the latest of a long list of big brands that found itself reluctantly hitting the 'send' button.</p><p>As a precaution the company was asking its 50 million users to reset their passwords after hackers breached its security and potentiallly accessed information such as user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords.</p><p>Related Articles on Techworld</p><p>That the passwords were encrypted and salted isn't being seen as great news tells you a lot about how vulnerable many of these could be to password cracking. Have a long, complex password? Good. How about a short less complex one? Even with encryption criminals could just bypass it by making a clever guess based on the most common possibilities.</p><p><a href="http://features.techworld.com/security/3434142/evernote-breached-should-admins-be-worried/">Keep reading...</a></p>