Millions of Dropbox users are being advised to change their passwords | #Awareness #CyberSecurity #digcit  | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
Yes, hackers did manage to steal millions of account credentials back in 2012.
Make sure you have protected your account, and enabled two-step verification.

 

At the time, security commentators such as Brian Krebs, Troy Hunt and myselfurged internet users to be wary of the claims - as they had not been verified.

After all, it seemed possible that the data had been collected from heavily-reported mega breaches at Tumblr, LinkedIn and MySpace.

 

Now, however, Dropbox has confirmed to the media that a 5GB archive of files, containing the email addresses and hashed passwords for some 68,680,741 accounts, is genuine.

 

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