Head's Up: Drop Box Password Theft

[mal&jason]

I know a lot of us folks use dropbox for menus and flyers, etc. so I thought I would quickly share that I heard on CNN this morning that Dropbox passwords need to be changed due to a security brief.

 

Mallory

[esm54687]

do you have a time machine and traveled back to 2012? LOL

 

I've done a search high and low on CNN.com as well as other news agency websites and cannot find anything about this

 

Do you have the link to the story?

 

This is all I could find:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/18/tech/web/dropbox-spam-security/

Edited September 1, 2016 by esm54687

[mal&jason]

There were several news items but here's one of the most reputable ones:

 

http://fortune.com/2016/08/31/dropbox-breach-passwords/

[esm54687]

There were several news items but here's one of the most reputable ones:

 

http://fortune.com/2016/08/31/dropbox-breach-passwords/

 

OK, thank you..... the hack \ data breach actually is the one from 2012 and the people who are having issues are the people who did NOT change their password 4 years ago. It is NOT a new hack \ data breach but Dropbox resetting the password for these people.

 

WHEW!

[Brighton Line]

This happened in 2012, if you haven't changed your password since 2012 you are not practicing safe computing.

Dropbox forced anyone who did not change their password since 2012 to do so.

[easyboy]

This happened in 2012, if you haven't changed your password since 2012 you are not practicing safe computing.

Dropbox forced anyone who did not change their password since 2012 to do so.

I agree, and might be wise to do the same on other accounts.