7 Million Dropbox Accounts Hacked!

Written by: Anon.Dos

Hackers claim to have stolen a database of about seven million Dropbox login accreditations, yet the organization says its services were not hacked.

The first leakage of information came up on Monday in an unacknowledged post on Pastebin & contained four – hundred usernames & protected passwords. The user of that pastebin account said that it was just the start & the rest of six million hacked Dropbox accounts will appear after Bitcoin donation. The user additionally asserted to have admittance to photographs, features and different documents from the leaked accounts.

The post states, the more Bitcoin donation is; the more user names & passwords would be shown. We know there were no less than five “extra” teasers posted by Tuesday on Pastebin showing an estimate of eight hundred to about nine hundred user login details.

Anton Mityagin a security engineer at Dropbox said that the user accounts that were hacked are not real they are fake. He also said that the user names and passwords that were hacked are no way related to Dropbox and are of different service(s). And that your information is safe with Dropbox.

Also, there was another post on Tuesday providing many other Dropbox account details and Mityagin checked them and said they were not associated with Dropbox.

If we come to think of it this incident is somewhat like the hacking of five million Gmail accounts and passwords in September. A lot of people thought at first they were really Google Accounts. But it was later confirmed that they were of different services, where hackers got their Gmail address as usernames. Google also said that people tried logging in those account and about two percent were qualified.

According to web security experts it is not good to use the same password for different accounts and website logins.

Mityagin says that it was simply a bad attempt of scaring people away from using Dropbox. Anybody can present unrestrained claims on Pastebin but there is no harm in changing passwords once we know that there has been a breach. It was a quick and dirty trick by making people set up two factor authentications on accounts which allowed the hackers to get Bitcoin.

However, after vigorous testing at of malware insights by means of email at the security firm Malwarebytes. They said that what Dropbox claims is true, there has been no breach it were the test accounts that they were playing with and they have also expired.

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Sources:

 http://mashable.com/2014/10/14/dropbox-password-hack/

http://thehackernews.com/2014/10/nearly-7-million-dropbox-account.html