{"id":10157,"date":"2016-08-31T13:56:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T13:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vboxxcloud.nl\/?p=10157"},"modified":"2018-03-21T15:10:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T14:10:41","slug":"dropbox-account-details-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vboxxcloud.com\/blog\/dropbox-account-details-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox: More Than 68 Million Accounts Details Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Several media outlets are reporting that Dropbox has been hacked. It is estimated that over 66 million users&#8217; email addresses and passwords were dumped on the internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The credentials obtained originate from a known 2012 data breach. Dropbox has already confirmed the breach, and notified its customers but failed to give an exact number\u00a0of affected users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Dropbox disclosed the data breach in 2012, after one of its employee passwords was used to access a file that contained email addresses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">If you are using Dropbox, change your passwords immediately, specially if you use the same for different websites. If you are searching for a Dropbox alternative, try our business grade solution,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/vboxxcloud.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vBoxxCloud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">For more information on the Dropbox leak, click<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/aug\/31\/dropbox-hack-passwords-68m-data-breach?CMP=twt_gu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several media outlets are reporting that Dropbox has been hacked. 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