![]() ![]() And use a password manager (I like LastPass by the way). But it’s certainly a serious breach, and I’m a little disappointed that Dropbox waited so long to come clean.īut this, like every other publicized hack (there’s no shortage of these) simply reinforces the security mantra: use unique and unguessable passwords, and change them anytime you even suspect a possible compromise. That’s not a big deal for bad actor hackers, but certainly not something anyone can do. ![]() That means that the hash (some were bcrypt hashes and some were SHA1 hashes) would need to be converted into the actual password. What’s more, the credentials that were compromised were the username/email address and a “hash” of the password. And while upwards of 68 million credentials were stolen and put on the dark web, only a fraction of those credentials belonged to that subset of Dropbox users. This hack is worrisome for a certain subset of Dropbox users: those who’ve had accounts since 2012 or before, and those who’ve never changed their password since about mid-2012. I use Dropbox, do I need to worry?Īctually, you can spend your worry-beads on something else. Had your account been at risk, Dropbox would have asked you to change your password. I read about how Dropbox got hacked and lost 70 million user logins. ![]()
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