Nearly 7 Million Dropbox Account Passwords Allegedly Hacked
Dropbox, the popular online locker service, appears to have been hacked by an unnamed hacker group. It is still unclear how the account details of so many users were accessed and, indeed, if they are actually legitimate or not. However, the group claims to have accessed details from nearly 7 million individual accounts and are threatening to release users? photos, videos and other files.
That being said Drop box is saying it wasn't Hacked.
Dropbox says it wasn't hacked after 7 million alleged user credentials appear online | PCWorld
At least five additional ?teaser? posts appeared Monday and Tuesday on Pastebin, containing between 100 and 900 credentials each.
?Recent news articles claiming that Dropbox was hacked aren?t true,? Anton Mityagin, a Dropbox security engineer said Monday in a blog post. ?Your stuff is safe.?
According to Mityagin, the usernames and passwords posted were likely stolen from other services, but since the reuse of credentials for different online accounts is common among users, attackers tried to use them on different sites, including Dropbox.
?We have measures in place to detect suspicious login activity and we automatically reset passwords when it happens,?
Dropbox, the popular online locker service, appears to have been hacked by an unnamed hacker group. It is still unclear how the account details of so many users were accessed and, indeed, if they are actually legitimate or not. However, the group claims to have accessed details from nearly 7 million individual accounts and are threatening to release users? photos, videos and other files.
That being said Drop box is saying it wasn't Hacked.
Dropbox says it wasn't hacked after 7 million alleged user credentials appear online | PCWorld
At least five additional ?teaser? posts appeared Monday and Tuesday on Pastebin, containing between 100 and 900 credentials each.
?Recent news articles claiming that Dropbox was hacked aren?t true,? Anton Mityagin, a Dropbox security engineer said Monday in a blog post. ?Your stuff is safe.?
According to Mityagin, the usernames and passwords posted were likely stolen from other services, but since the reuse of credentials for different online accounts is common among users, attackers tried to use them on different sites, including Dropbox.
?We have measures in place to detect suspicious login activity and we automatically reset passwords when it happens,?
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