It seems like just about every day there is some sort of hack involving an online service. Today’s hack is from Dropbox.
A user posted files on Reddit that contained a bunch of usernames and passwords for Dropbox accounts. The poster said there were close to 7,000,000 more, but asked for Bitcoin donations to reveal them.
Later, Dropbox made a statement to The Next Web saying that they are not to be blamed, and they were stolen from other third party services……
Dropbox has not been hacked. These usernames and passwords were unfortunately stolen from other services and used in attempts to log in to Dropbox accounts. We’d previously detected these attacks and the vast majority of the passwords posted have been expired for some time now. All other remaining passwords have been expired as well.
Dropbox also said they performed password resets when it detected any suspicious activity on these accounts, which was a few months ago.
source: TheNextWeb
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