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Dropbox hacked?
Dropbox hack teaser being dumped on Pastebin!
Popular online locker service and cloud storage service Dropbox appears to have been hacked.
The hackers apparently are willing to divulge more username/password pairs if they receive donations to their bitcoin address.
Pastebin
The hacker who has leaked the login credentials in three tranches as of now.
The first tranche givenherewas leaked 6 hours ago and the second one givenherewas just 4 hours ago.
Reddittors confirm that passwords work
Still, a lot more confirmed that the leaked credentials are working.
Dropbox has sent the following statement toArsTechnica
Dropbox has not been hacked.
All other remaining passwords have been expired as well.
In the meantime, Techworm requests all Dropbox users to change your passwords ASAP and enable a two-factor authentication.
Update:In a blogpost Dropbox said that it wasnt hacked.
The brief statement is given below :
Recent news articles claiming that Dropbox was hacked arent true.
Your stuff is safe.
The usernames and passwords referenced in these articles were stolen from unrelated services, not Dropbox.
We have measures in place to detect suspicious login activity and we automatically reset passwords when it happens.
A subsequent list of usernames and passwords has been posted online.
Weve checked and these are not associated with Dropbox accounts.
source: www.techworm.net
