7 million Dropbox accounts hacked

[The Bad Guy]

'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

[coolcoin]

I wonder how many of those dropbox accounts has bitcoin wallet backups.

[SecureExchange]

doubt they will release it at all.

it's like asking for trouble

[pedrog]

Old.

https://blog.dropbox.com/2014/10/dropbox-wasnt-hacked/

[Sunderland]

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 

[spazzdla]

I wonder how many of those dropbox accounts has bitcoin wallet backups.

How many of them are encrypted....

[My Name Was Taken]

Old.

https://blog.dropbox.com/2014/10/dropbox-wasnt-hacked/

^^^^^For Emphasis^^^^^

[kokojie]

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.

[troy112]

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..

[kokojie]

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.

[troy112]

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...

[kerafym]

Cloud storage should expect this kind of issues.

[beginner_x]

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

[Divinespark]

My understanding is that Dropbox denies that any accounts were compromised. Has the company since confirmed the breach?

[DhaniBoy]

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 ... 

[nikkoy]

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.

[cryptocoiner]

Do not keep any sensitive private data online. Its should be obvious.

[Argwai96]

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...

Dropbox was not actually hacked, they said so on their blog. This is just a scam trying to get people to pay to "view" the hacked information, there are quite a few of these going around as of recently. I think people go the idea from the hacked satashi email incident.

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)