Wednesday, August 31, 2016

You Should Probably Change Your Dropbox Password Right Now

Over 60 million account details were stolen in 2012, and the list has been leaked.

Hackers obtained around 68 million email accounts at that time – and it was recently revealed that passwords were also at risk. The database was sent to Motherboard by the breach notification service Leakbase.

In a blog post, Dropbox wrote, "If you signed up for Dropbox prior to mid-2012 and haven’t changed your password since, you’ll be prompted to update it the next time you sign in."

The forced reset is a "purely preventative measure," according to the company.

You can check if your email address has been a part of a breach at haveibeenpwned.com.

You can check if your email address has been a part of a breach at haveibeenpwned.com.

haveibeenpwned.com

The site reveals which data associated with your email has been compromised.

The site reveals which data associated with your email has been compromised.

haveibeenpwned.com

Change your Dropbox password here – and turn on two-step verification.

Change your Dropbox password here – and turn on two-step verification.

Dropbox


View Entire List ›



from BuzzFeed - Tech https://www.buzzfeed.com/nicolenguyen/dropbox-data-breach?utm_term=4ldqpia

No comments:

Post a Comment