Heim also reminded users that they should think about whether they reused their Dropbox passwords in other accounts. 'We can confirm that the scope of the password reset we completed last week did protect all impacted users,' Heim said. The company said all customers who haven't updated their passwords since that time period have been required to change their passwords.

The account information includes emails as well as passwords, which are encrypted.ĭropbox head of trust Patrick Heim confirmed in a statement that the usernames and passwords were from mid-2012.

Now Motherboard, security expert Troy Hunt, and online leak-tracker LeakedSource have each reported they reviewed stockpiles of account information from Dropbox. It didn't say the list included passwords. Wait, how many accounts were affected by a 2012 hack on Dropbox? About 68 million, according to multiple reports.īack in 2012, Dropbox disclosed that a hacker had accessed its internal systems and accessed a list of user email accounts.

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