Earlier this week, the file hosting service in the cloud Dropbox reset all passwords that have not changed since 2012, after discovering a password file high security that was stolen in a hack prior to the company.
According to the Motherboard site systems suffered an intrusion signature in 2012, and the attackers were able to take 68 million usernames and passwords. The data were backed by security expert Troy Hunt.
What to do?
According to what he says The Next Web, if did not change the password for Dropbox from 2012 is that too did not use the service because Dropbox forced the reset key in those old accounts and passwords that hackers found you were not useful. In addition 32 million of those passwords were strongly encrypted using methods and algorithms that use random characters to darken even more.
However, the recommendation is that if you were using the same combination of email address and password other services in addition to Dropbox (quite common) you should change them without wasting time. It is very common that hackers use the credentials obtained hacking a company to access other sites.
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