Dropbox hacked? Dropbox hack teaser being dumped on Pastebin!PastebinReddittors confirm that passwords workDropbox comments
Pastebin
The hacker who has leaked the login credentials in three tranches as of now. The first tranche given here was leaked 6 hours ago and the second one given here was just 4 hours ago. While writing this article another of these leaks, which the hacker calls ‘Dropbox Hack Teaser’ has been leaked here As the three pastes dont contain all the 6,97,0381 Dropbox account credentials claimed to hacked and just like the hacker says, this are Dropbox hack teasers, there will be flood of pastes to follow.
Reddittors confirm that passwords work
The leak apparently surfaced on this Reddit thread, where the other Reddit users who have tested some of the leaked credentials have confirmed that many of still work. Going by the comments on Reddit, Dropbox seems to have bulk reset all the accounts listed in the Pastebin postings and that is the reason, logging on to those accounts will require you to put in a Captcha code. But thus far other accounts do not appear to have had their passwords reset.
Still, a lot more confirmed that the leaked credentials are working.
Dropbox comments
Dropbox has sent the following statement to ArsTechnica In the meantime, Techworm requests all Dropbox users to change your passwords ASAP and enable a two-factor authentication. Due to the leaks, Dropbox is apparently struggling to keep up with the process of passwords change and enabling two-factor authentication but it would be wise to get it done soon. Update: In a blogpost Dropbox said that it wasn’t hacked. The brief statement is given below : A subsequent list of usernames and passwords has been posted online. We’ve checked and these are not associated with Dropbox accounts.