31-08-2016 12:22 via thedrum.com

Severity of 2012 Dropbox hack comes to light - 68m accounts were compromised

Cloud-based file-manager Dropbox has admitted that the details of over 60 million accounts have been circulated online since a breach in 2012.
Motherboard first reported the breach, claiming that while individual users were informed of the breach at the time with forced password resets, the scale of user information circulating on the dark web has just become apparent.
Four databases totalling 5GB and 68,680,741 accounts has been independently verified by Dropbox sources via Motherboard and Tech
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