Dropbox - Millions of passwords compromised
As early as 2012, the cloud storage service Dropbox – like LinkedIn shortly before – was hacked. The attackers captured 68 million email addresses and passwords.
The hackers probably gained access to the service via an employee's password, which was stolen during the previous LinkedIn hack.
Dropbox had saved the user passwords as hashes – a good move, because the service makes it more difficult for hackers to crack the passwords. However, only about half of the hashes are secured with the state-of-the-art solution bcrypt. The other half, which was just salted as a simple SHA1 hash, could be computed relatively easily.
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If you want to test whether you were also affected by this or one of the other big hacks, such as the one at LinkedIn, in the last few months, you can easily check it on this page:
haveibeenpwned.com
You can read more about the hack at Dropbox in the British The Guardian:
theguardian.com
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