Bad news for users (and of course for managers) of the note platform for cloud storage and synchronization multi-device Dropbox ; the service would have suffered the theft of well 7 million account with grave danger to the data (including personal) associated with the latter; However, the incident could have even more serious consequences.
7 million would in fact published online utilities for a sort of demonstration of their work by self-styled strikers after their malevolent action, the latter, however, would have claimed to be in possession of other account and you are ready to sell them in exchange for a payment that must be paid in virtual currency through Bitcoin .
As for the company involved, the technicians of Dropbox for now they denied having suffered a loss of confidential information in response to a cyber attack; accounts on the lists on the Internet would have been finished, however, as a precautionary measure and reset their passwords will be forcibly changed.
It is still possible that the lists in the hands of the crackers have been acquired from third parties or subtracted from the database external companies whose applications interact with API ( Application Programming Interface ) of Dropbox; if they were to be corroborated these assumptions the platform could be considered actually innocent, as well as its security managers.
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What perpetrated by self-proclaimed attackers would seem to be a real kidnapping with ransom demand and its proof of existence in life (accounts already published on the Web); however, beyond the incident, we recommend users to use Dropbox two-factor authentication and to choose passwords that are hard to break.
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