Dropbox Compromise Accounts

iCloud, Snapchat and now, Dropbox. The company has confirmed compromise account details but also says that its servers were not hacked.


An Anonymus user has claimed to have about 7 million Dropbox account credentials (emails and passwords) and has posted the first 400. In its defense, the company says have checked and reject these accounts are associated to Dropbox. Moreover, has confirmed that the most of Password were expired.

It’s unclear exactly which other website(s) or service(s) is the source of the security breach. But Dropbox’s statement confirms the initially posted credentials are — or rather were — genuine account logins for its service. Albeit now reset. It also says no actual accounts were compromised as a result of the leaked credentials.