Attackers then used these stolen credentials to try to log in to sites across the internet, including Dropbox. The usernames and passwords referenced in these articles were stolen from unrelated services, not Dropbox. Recent news articles claiming that Dropbox was hacked aren’t true. In a post on the company Blog - unequivocally entitled ‘ Dropbox wasn’t hacked‘ - Dropbox’s Anton Mityagin writes: Rather the culprit looks like password reuse across other web services. However unlike Snapchat it appears services using Dropbox’s API were not to blame here. We’ve checked and these are not associated with Dropbox accounts.”Īs with the Snapchat hack, Dropbox has pointed the finger of blame for the 400 compromised accounts elsewhere - at “unrelated” third party services - stressing that its own security has not been compromised. In an update to a blog post about the attack Dropbox notes: “A subsequent list of usernames and passwords has been posted online. However these follow up pastes do not appear to be genuine. This leak has since been followed up with a couple more pastes (of around a hundred account credentials apiece). An anonymous Pastebin user has claimed to have compromised almost seven million Dropbox account credentials (emails and passwords), posting the first 400 direct to Pastebin with a call for Bitcoin donations to leak more. After last week’s Snapchat photo hack, it’s cloud storage provider Dropbox’s turn in the unsavory insecurity spotlight.
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