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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.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Dropbox
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.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Dropbox