15.10.2014 - 02:13 [ Popular Mechanics ]

No, Dropbox Wasn‘t Hacked, But Here‘s Why it Doesn‘t Matter

Last night, in response to a claim on Reddit that thousands of Dropbox passwords had been leaked, the company published to a blog post to say it wasn‘t us. Dropbox denies that it was hacked, saying that the passwords obtained for any Dropbox accounts were stolen from third-party sites. „Attackers then used these stolen credentials to try to log in to sites across the internet,“ they wrote, „including Dropbox.“