Hacker attack on Dropbox: violated seven million account – The Messenger

and the image of kids from Snapchat, another hacker attack.

This time strikes Dropbox. Seven million account of the popular cloud storage service data on the web would have been violated and some credentials posted on the Net. Society defends and explains that it is not directly responsible.

Alarm ” Username and password have been stolen and used by other services to try to log in to your Dropbox account, “he says in an official statement. Dropbox has, however, taken steps to reset all accounts in the published list. Hoping that no others exist, maybe not disclosed. Hackers have in fact claimed to have in my hands several other login details that threaten to make them public if someone is funding them with Bitcoin. A campaign donations for the moment does not seem to have great success.

The platform Dropbox is one of the services ‘cloud storage’ most common and popular of all, to which almost 300 million users worldwide rely on to keep personal documents, sensitive data and even photos. Invented in 2007 in San Francisco, offers a system of free web storage up to 2 GB of space.

Tips “Attacks such as this are one of the reasons why we strongly encourage users do not use the same password across various services – Dropbox says -. For an additional level of security, we always recommend you to activate a two-step verification process on your account. ” The two-factor authentication is the same as a security measure implemented by Apple on its iCloud few weeks ago when there was the case of the theft of risque photos of celebrities, then into the public domain on the web. If it is dropped in the field even the FBI.

The case Snapchat While it’s a few days ago that were stolen over 100 thousand pictures and videos from Snapchat: yes assumed that there are those among them minors since the messages app that will auto-destroy is very popular among the kids. Even in this case, the hacker snuck using a third party application.

The halt of Snowden “Get rid of Dropbox, Facebook and Google,” he reiterated a few days Edward Snowden ago in a videoconference with the New Yorker Festival, organized by the popular American magazine. The concern of the former expert of Nsa, as is known, however, are not hackers. For Snowden, in fact, these giants of the web offer services that are not fully encrypted and therefore do not maintain our privacy.