Dropbox data breach: 68.6M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2016-08-31
In mid-2012, Dropbox suffered a data breach which exposed the stored credentials of tens of millions of their customers. In August 2016, they forced password resets for customers they believed may be at risk. A large volume of data totalling over 68 million records was subsequently traded online and included email addresses and salted hashes of passwords (half of them SHA1, half of them bcrypt). Exposed data: email addresses, passwords. The breach dates from Jul 1, 2012; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Aug 31, 2016.
What to do
- If you had a Dropbox account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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