Last week, Dropbox asked longtime users to update their login credentials after learning that their information may have been compromised nearly four years earlier. At the time, the file-sharing site didn’t say just how many users were affected by this breach, but a new report shows that more than 68 million accounts were involved.
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Dropbox Breach Affected Logins For 68 Million Accounts
By 8.31.16
Dropbox Asking Some Users To Change Passwords
By 8.26.16
Are you a longtime user of Dropbox? Then you might be asked to change your password. Was the online storage service hacked? No… at least not recently. Instead, Dropbox says some login credential may have been compromised nearly four years ago [More]
Facebook Partners With Dropbox To Allow Users To Share Files Through Messenger
By 4.12.16
Until now, Facebook users could message each other and share thoughts, feelings, links, photos, and ginormous stickers, among other things. Soon, they’ll have another way to share more data than a snap or two from Uncle Larry’s 70th birthday party, with a new partnership between Facebook and Dropbox that lets people send photos, videos, and other files during a chat on the Messenger platform. [More]
Dropbox Announces The End For Not-Popular-Enough Mailbox And Carousel Apps
By 12.7.15
The mobile era seems to bring new innovations weekly, if not daily or hourly, but not all of them can last. And so it comes to pass that toay Dropbox has announced it is dropping two of its once-hot services, Mailbox and Carousel. [More]
Hacker Claims 7M Dropbox Accounts Were Compromised, Company Says It Wasn’t Actually Hacked
By 10.14.14
It’s almost as if reports of new data breaches are popping up as often as vehicle recalls these days. The latest compromise comes after a hacker claims to have gained access to nearly 7 million Dropbox account credentials, something the cloud storage service says simply isn’t the case. [More]
More Money, More Women And More Countries Featured In 2014 Forbes Billionaires List
By 3.3.14
The world’s wealthiest individuals are taking over from the looks of the 2014 Forbes Billionaire List. This year’s list has more billionaires, more women and reaches more areas in the world than ever before. [More]
DropBox Jumps On Forced Arbitration Bandwagon, But Offers Online Opt-Out
By 2.21.14
Another company is taking the coward’s way out of resolving legal disputes with its customers by tweaking its Terms of Service to take away users’ rights to take the company to court and to prevent multiple users from having their complaints heard as a group. This time, it’s online storage service Dropbox, which is currently notifying users of the bad news. [More]
Graphic: Which Internet Biggies Are Even Slightly Concerned About Your Privacy?
By 5.20.13
When it comes to online privacy, many consumers assume that their service provider, or the websites they are browsing, have the users’ best interest in mind and that these companies won’t simply hand over your information to authorities. These people are mistaken, as are those who believe that no online companies make user privacy a priority. The truth, as usual, is a bit from column A and a bit from column B. [More]
Man Gets Lead On Laptop Thief Using Dropbox Program
By 3.24.11
Ryan believes he has a lead on who stole his laptop thanks to the Dropbox filesharing program that was installed on his computer. Turns out his laptop could be just up the street from him right now. But what does he do with the IP address he got from Dropbox? [More]
