Ramblings of an old Doc

 

Well…the title says it all. Dropbox has “ropBox seems to have bulk reset all accounts appearing on the pastebin leaks, though accounts do not appear to have had their passwords reset as of yet.”

I changed mine, thank you.

“Hackers claim they will release more of the nearly seven million DropBox accounts if they receive donations to their bitcoin address. Appearing to nearly be holding the account information of millions ransom. - – FreedomHacker

DropBox has told a number of sources their service was not compromised nor did the company suffer any form of a data breach. DropBox told ARS Technica the following:

“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.”  – ARSTechnica

Apparently, it hasn’t been ‘hacked’, but the passwords and logon credentials are in the hands of ransomers.

If you have trouble changing the password, try again…quite a few folks are doing the same.

So, use unique passwords and two factor authentication. Also, change your DropBox password.

Sources:

http://freedomhacker.net/seven-million-dropbox-account-credentials-leaked-online/

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/7-million-dropbox-usernamepassword-pairs-apparently-leaked/


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