Dropbox Says About 5,000 Accounts Compromised in August Hack

Dropbox user accounts breached by hackers who accessed data

About 5,000 Dropbox accounts were compromised by the hackers. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Dropbox says about 5,000 accounts compromised in August hack

Sept 1 : Dropbox said on Tuesday that around 5,000 accounts were compromised last month, with hackers viewing and downloading content stored on the cloud-storage platform.Here are a few details:• Some Dropbox users received an email from the company on Monday notifying them that their accounts have b

Dropbox User Accounts Breached by Hackers, Some Data Accessed

Hackers broke into thousands of Dropbox Inc. accounts last month, viewing and downloading material users kept on the cloud-storage platform, according to a company statement and records seen by Bloomberg News.

Dropbox breach seemingly caused by egregious authentication failure

Multiple Dropbox users have been emailed by the cloud storage company to advise them that a security breach saw unauthorised access to their account. The root cause appears to be a lack of authentication by Dropbox when attackers created a single sign-on option through a third-party company … more…

Dropbox security breach exposed 5,000 accounts via Lenovo ID flaw

A cloud storage account is supposed to feel like a locked drawer . But for roughly 5,000 Dropbox users, that drawer opened without anyone typing a password. The Dropbox security breach that came to light this week traces back to an unlikely source: a flawed sign-in system tied to Lenovo, the...

Dropbox Security Breach: Hackers Access Accounts Through Authentication Flaw | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #hacker - National Cyber Security Consulting

Multiple Dropbox users were notified that unauthorized parties accessed their accounts through an authentication flaw involving Lenovo ID. The incident appears to have exploited the way Dropbox handled single sign-on, or SSO, through Lenovo IDs. Dropbox said an issue with Lenovo's email verification process allowed unauthorized parties to register Lenovo IDs using other people's email […] Thank you for subscribing to our RSS feed! The post Dropb…