The file hosting service in the cloud Dropbox required its active users since 2012 to change their password the next time they log on, as a “preventive measure” security.
“We do this solely as a preventive measure , there is no indication that your account has been accessed inappropriately,” he said the company through its official blog.
However, at the end of the statement, specified that safety equipment Dropbox, “as part of increasing efforts” to detect new threats, discovered a series of accounts “( e-mail and passwords ) that were” obtained in 2012 “.
” Our analysis suggests that the accounts are linked to an incident we disclose at that time, “the company said, without providing further details.
on July 31, 2012, Dropbox had suffered a” hacking “to communicate in good time with the clarification that it was not an attack on their own services, but access to usernames and passwords stored in third party sites linking to your dropbox.
According to the statement, quoted by the Telam agency, the company said that based on a monitoring threats and the way in which guarantee the security of passwords, “do not believe” that none of the accounts have been accessed so inappropriate.
You can check online if the account was robbed, and not only in this service by web created for the purpose by a security expert.
What if the account was a victim of theft? The single most urgent that the user can do is to change your password in the setup menu Dropbox and ensure that the two-step verification is enabled.
As an additional advice, it is recommended to user do not use the same password in different services to at least limit the damage in case of identity theft.
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