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ttodd0450
Explorer | Level 4
10 months ago

was dropbox breached last week? what do I need to know?

I'm reading about the securtity breach last week on Dropbox as well as others .. 

Have I missed any bulletins from dropbox about this?

I have in place already  a 16 digit password with// special characters // upper and lower case ..  

am I protected?

 

rsvp

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    Rich
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    ttodd0450 wrote:

    I'm reading about the securtity breach last week on Dropbox as well as others .. 


    From the Forbes article on the data leak:

     

    "... little of this appears to be new data. Instead, the researchers say, it’s more a case of compiled records from thousands of previous breaches and data leaks."

     

    Basically, there wasn't a breach last week. The data contained in the MOAB leak is from multiple sources. In the case of Dropbox, it likely contains the data from the 2012 Dropbox hack.