Dropbox Hacked Account Emails leaked, no passwords have been stolen

1 August, 2012 Technology

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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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