![]() ![]() The data sets for both Dropbox and LinkedIn are reportedly being traded in the dark web now (or they were, leading up to a week ago). Why are the hacked passwords resurfacing now? What happened was that more than 117 million LinkedIn accounts were affected, though it’s possible that the actual number could be as high as 167 million. If you clicked that link in the previous paragraph, you’ll find no mention of how big a data loss this was even though the sense of urgency is apparent with the frequent updates to that particular page. They implored LinkedIn users to change their passwords " as a matter of best practice" after becoming aware of the theft of a set of emails and passwords that had occurred – you guessed it – in 2012. Dropbox wasn’t alone LinkedIn was similarly hackedīack in May 2016, LinkedIn announced something similar to last week’s Dropbox hack. One of these accounts belonged to a Dropbox employee, who had used the same password for both the breached site and for their Dropbox account.Ĭoincidentally, the same employee had a folder full of documents containing the email addresses of 68,680,741 Dropbox accounts as well as hashed passwords. Hackers had used usernames and passwords from another data breach to sign-in to Dropbox accounts. Rather than imagine a Hollywood hacker scene (many of which got hacking terribly wrong), the hack came to be due to human error. More than 68 million email addresses and passwords are stolen in the hack, yes, but the hack itself happened 4 years ago, back in 2012. About the Dropbox hackįirst of all, let’s get this out of the way: the Dropbox hack didn’t just happen last week. However, that doesn’t mean that there is nothing to worry about. The good news is there hasn’t been any reports of anything malicious coming out of the Dropbox hack, so far. Your photos, documents, data etc could be accessed without your knowledge using your email address and password lost in that particular hack. For any Dropbox user this is of course a point of concern, particularly if you store anything in Dropbox, be it personal or for work. In the past week, Dropbox had been making headlines over a hack which saw the email addresses and passwords of 68 million Dropbox accounts compromised. ![]()
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