Dropbox: 7,000,000 words stolen, whose fault is happening? – MetroNews

081 6937 This is the very specific IDs and passwords were hacked by malicious people number. These pirates have unveiled their crime on the Net and threaten to reveal this valuable data if Dropbox does not pay a ransom. For proof of this piracy, they have already released a list of 400 passwords Dropbox members whose first name begins with the letter B. To not go further and do not put it online – or sell to the highest bidder – the approximately 7 million codes, these pirates are demanding a ransom to be paid in Bitcoins. But Dropbox does not seem ready to give.

In fact, the storage service online content says it is not responsible for the leak of data. As in the case of Snapchat (including 100 000 photos and videos of users have been hacked), Dropbox says that there is no security breach on its servers. Therefore no intrusion, but then whose fault is it? According to the cloud service, they are third-party applications – capable of interconnecting with Dropbox – which are to question. “These IDs and passwords were stolen unfortunately other services used in attempts to connect to many other Web sites, including Dropbox,” says Anton Mityagin, responsible for security on the firm’s blog .

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Specifically, the hackers have managed to break the security of a third party service that can be grafted to Dropbox. Once this first stage of “siphoning” of usernames and passwords of people realized they would have reused these combinations to access Dropbox and other online services. A trial “haphazard” which was successful if people use the same login / password for all services, which is extremely dangerous but unfortunately quite common.

Finally, while Dropbox denies responsibility and says the pirate threat is not real – according to the American, stolen codes do not match those used by its members on Dropbox – it is nevertheless advisable to change passwords once one is a member. Moreover, according to The Next Web, Dropbox itself had launched a wave of enforced code changes, prompting some of its members to change their password. For sure, this new controversy affecting Dropbox is a little more cut branding service, already eroded by similar incidents.

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