Dropbox Hacked Account Emails leaked, no passwords have been stolen
Dropbox Hacked Account Emails leaked, no passwords have been stolen
1 August, 2012
Technology
After investigating complaints from its users getting crazy amounts of spam, Dropbox has announced that Emails and passwords stolen from third-party websites have been used to hack into existing Dropbox accounts. One of the breachеd accounts is a Dropbox employee's and it happened to contain some project files with a number of Dropbox client email addresses.
Dropbox will be Introducing New security Measures to protect its users from such attacks :
- Two-factor authentication - a way to optionally require two proofs of identity when signing in.
- New automated mechanisms to help identify suspicious activity. We'll continue to add more of these over time.
- A new page that lets you examine all active logins to your account.
- In some cases, we may require you to change your password.
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