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Title: 7 million Dropbox accounts hacked Post by: The Bad Guy on October 17, 2014, 01:19:56 PM https://dt8kf6553cww8.cloudfront.net/static/images/brand/logotype-vflFbF9pY.png 'Dropbox, the popular online locker service, appears to have been hacked by an unnamed hacker group. It is still unclear how the account details of so many users were accessed and, indeed, if they are actually legitimate or not. However, the group claims to have accessed details from nearly 7 million individual accounts and are threatening to release users’ photos, videos and other files.' Source here : http://thehackernews.com/2014/10/nearly-7-million-dropbox-account.html (http://thehackernews.com/2014/10/nearly-7-million-dropbox-account.html) Title: Re: 7 million Dropbox accounts hacked Post by: coolcoin on October 17, 2014, 01:29:25 PM I wonder how many of those dropbox accounts has bitcoin wallet backups.
Title: Re: 7 million Dropbox accounts hacked Post by: SecureExchange on October 17, 2014, 01:44:04 PM doubt they will release it at all.
it's like asking for trouble Title: Re: 7 million Dropbox accounts hacked Post by: pedrog on October 17, 2014, 01:53:25 PM Old.
https://blog.dropbox.com/2014/10/dropbox-wasnt-hacked/ Title: Re: 7 million Dropbox accounts hacked Post by: Sunderland on October 17, 2014, 02:21:56 PM I wonder how many of those dropbox accounts has bitcoin wallet backups. From that 7 million ? at least 500k or 1 million or more perhaps. We will hear that mess soon :( Title: Re: 7 million Dropbox accounts hacked Post by: spazzdla on October 17, 2014, 02:24:07 PM I wonder how many of those dropbox accounts has bitcoin wallet backups. How many of them are encrypted.... Title: Re: 7 million Dropbox accounts hacked Post by: My Name Was Taken on October 17, 2014, 05:08:42 PM Old. https://blog.dropbox.com/2014/10/dropbox-wasnt-hacked/ ^^^^^For Emphasis^^^^^ Title: Re: 7 million Dropbox accounts hacked Post by: kokojie on October 17, 2014, 08:11:20 PM I highly doubt 7 million dropbox is hacked, that's like at least 7 million GB of data, maybe more. Good luck to the hackers downloading all that.
Title: Re: 7 million Dropbox accounts hacked Post by: troy112 on October 17, 2014, 08:16:13 PM I highly doubt 7 million dropbox is hacked, that's like at least 7 million GB of data, maybe more. Good luck to the hackers downloading all that. I don't think everybody has a GB data on their account. And doesn't the hack means compromise of Password and Username. The hacker don't have to download all the data. But only the once that seems important..Title: Re: 7 million Dropbox accounts hacked Post by: kokojie on October 17, 2014, 08:23:34 PM I highly doubt 7 million dropbox is hacked, that's like at least 7 million GB of data, maybe more. Good luck to the hackers downloading all that. I don't think everybody has a GB data on their account. And doesn't the hack means compromise of Password and Username. The hacker don't have to download all the data. But only the once that seems important..Who has time to go through 7 million accounts and determine which files are important. And they have to do this before dropbox discover the hack and force reset all accounts. Sure there are people doesn't have 1GB of data on their account (but they have at least some data). Then there are heavy users like my company, who has 100GB+ data, 200k+ files on the account, so it balances out. Title: Re: 7 million Dropbox accounts hacked Post by: troy112 on October 17, 2014, 08:31:29 PM I highly doubt 7 million dropbox is hacked, that's like at least 7 million GB of data, maybe more. Good luck to the hackers downloading all that. I don't think everybody has a GB data on their account. And doesn't the hack means compromise of Password and Username. The hacker don't have to download all the data. But only the once that seems important..Who has time to go through 7 million accounts and determine which files are important. And they have to do this before dropbox discover the hack and force reset all accounts. Sure there are people doesn't have 1GB of data on their account (but they have at least some data). Then there are heavy users like my company, who has 100GB+ data, 200k+ files on the account, so it balances out. Won't they have some script or some system to go through it? If not then, i don't think they can even download and go through 7 million accounts... Then it's just fruitless to hack... Title: Re: 7 million Dropbox accounts hacked Post by: kerafym on October 17, 2014, 08:46:01 PM Cloud storage should expect this kind of issues.
Title: Re: 7 million Dropbox accounts hacked Post by: beginner_x on October 17, 2014, 08:55:46 PM I highly doubt 7 million dropbox is hacked, that's like at least 7 million GB of data, maybe more. Good luck to the hackers downloading all that. maybe they do not need to "download" all. I think they targeted some accounts important for them, rest will be only for become famous or you can say to see themself in the news.. it can be interesting experience :) Title: Re: 7 million Dropbox accounts hacked Post by: Divinespark on October 18, 2014, 05:17:17 AM My understanding is that Dropbox denies that any accounts were compromised. Has the company since confirmed the breach?
Title: Re: 7 million Dropbox accounts hacked Post by: DhaniBoy on October 18, 2014, 06:37:18 AM whether the news is the news true or just hoax, I guess with a sophisticated security system dropbox seem to be easily hacked, let alone to 7 million user accounts hacked by people who are not responsible, it is extremely embarrassing, should the number of users that much, dropbox further improve the security of the users dropbox account, hopefully this thing to happen again in the future ... :-[
Title: Re: 7 million Dropbox accounts hacked Post by: nikkoy on October 18, 2014, 12:21:02 PM well. as the link above me says this is not true according to dropbox but if this would happen this is a real trouble to all who uses dropbox as their backup storage.
Title: Re: 7 million Dropbox accounts hacked Post by: cryptocoiner on October 18, 2014, 12:35:13 PM Do not keep any sensitive private data online. Its should be obvious.
Title: Re: 7 million Dropbox accounts hacked Post by: Argwai96 on October 18, 2014, 01:08:55 PM I highly doubt 7 million dropbox is hacked, that's like at least 7 million GB of data, maybe more. Good luck to the hackers downloading all that. I don't think everybody has a GB data on their account. And doesn't the hack means compromise of Password and Username. The hacker don't have to download all the data. But only the once that seems important..Who has time to go through 7 million accounts and determine which files are important. And they have to do this before dropbox discover the hack and force reset all accounts. Sure there are people doesn't have 1GB of data on their account (but they have at least some data). Then there are heavy users like my company, who has 100GB+ data, 200k+ files on the account, so it balances out. Won't they have some script or some system to go through it? If not then, i don't think they can even download and go through 7 million accounts... Then it's just fruitless to hack... EDIT: I do agree that someone probably could use some kind of scrypt to go through all the files to find anything that might be of use (like wallet.dat files) |
