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He claimed that the leaked database could not have been the result of credential reuse, saying 'there's no way this was cobbled together from other sources'.

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However, security expert Troy Hunt, who specialises in tracking data breaches such as this, told IT Pro that 'without a shadow of a doubt, the data was taken from Dropbox's system'. Many cybercriminals attempted to use password data from these breaches to break into other sites, where users may have recycled their passwords.Īt the time, Dropbox said affected accounts were compromised through password reuse, blaming the incident on hacks of other sites that gave hackers credentials they could then try out on victims' Dropbox accounts.īut it also disclosed that the hackers stole a Dropbox employee's credentials, and used them to access 'a project document with user email addresses'.ĭropbox today maintained that the 68 million leaked credentials that surfaced today from that old incident were obtained through password reuse, rather that through a breach of its network. That was a bumper year for hacks - the login information of 117 million users was stolen from LinkedIn, and Tumblr and MySpace also suffered major breaches in a similar period.

'Our analysis confirms that the credentials are user email addresses with hashed and salted passwords that were obtained prior to mid-2012.' 'We can confirm that the scope of the password reset we completed last week did protect all impacted users,' said Dropbox's head of trust and security Patrick Heim in a statement.

However, today breach notification service Leakbase told Motherboard it has obtained four 5GB files filled with 68,680,741 Dropbox users' credentials.ĭropbox confirmed to IT Pro that more than 60 million accounts have been affected - around two-thirds of the company's userbase back in 2012.