Nevertheless, what do consumers need to be aware of when it comes to the security of their online accounts? Your Password May Not be as Secret as You ThinkĪlthough you may have selected only something you would know as the password to one or more of your online accounts, there's a good chance that if that password has been in use for more than a year or two it may no longer be safe, especially if that same password is in use across multiple online accounts. In a statement reported by ZDNet, Dropbox claims that the emails, addresses, and passwords associated with these accounts were stolen 'from an unrelated service' and not from Dropbox itself.įortunately for Dropbox users, the data breach was less widespread than initially feared. What was initially reported as a hack in which almost 7 million Dropbox accounts were compromised seems now to be limited to only a few hundred accounts. Cloud storage provider Dropbox has denied that it was hacked, following the posting of account information and passwords for hundreds of Dropbox accounts online earlier this week.

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