Dropbox disclosed earlier this week that a large chunk of its users’ credentials obtained in 2012 was floating around on the dark web. But that number may have been much higher than we originally thought.
Credentials for more than 60 million accounts were taken, as first reported by Motherboard and confirmed by TechCrunch sources. The revelation of a password breach at Dropbox is an… Read More
Dropbox employee’s password reuse led to theft of 60M+ user credentials
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Dropbox is requiring users who have not changed their passwords since mid-2012 to reset their passwords this afternoon.
The action appears to be related to continued fallout over the massive hack on LinkedIn in 2012 where credentials for 117 million accounts were posted online. In recent months, treasure troves of user credentials and passwords — in addition to a large MySpace hack… Read More
Dropbox is resetting passwords for accounts that haven’t changed them since mid-2012