Evernote hack turns into security advice farce

Apple, Facebook and Twitter have all been the target of hackers recently, and now Evernote has admitted to a potential breach that has forced it to reset the passwords of approximately 50 million registered users. Evernote, a kind of web scrapbook that enables you to take notes, save web pages and web page content, sync files across devices and share ideas with friends and colleagues, did the right thing in notifying users and resetting passwords. However, it did the right thing in the wrong way; and here's why.