If Dropbox has sent you an email telling you that you should change your account password, you should do so immediately. This is the message that comes in the aforementioned email
A group of Hackers have taken over 60 million usernames and hashed passwords from Dropbox. All this just before one, more than rumored, IPO of this cloud storage platform.
The company confirmed that only user emails were stolen. But, apparently, those emails are also accompanied by the passwords of those 60 million stolen accounts.
This is why Dropbox has been forced to reset many of the affected accounts.
We remember that in 2012 we already had to change the password of our account, due to a breach in the security of the system that, apparently, continues to affect accounts today.
CHANGE YOUR DROPBOX PASSWORD AND OTHER SERVICES AND PLATFORMS:
And it is that of the more than 60 million stolen credentials, only 32 million are insured with Bcrypt, an encryption system that shields passwords and that Hackers will not be able to decipher.
The other accounts that don't use Bcrypt are the ones in danger. That is why you should change your password as soon as possible whether or not it has been requested, Dropbox.
But things don't end here since, surely, many people use the same usernames and passwords, on other platforms and services, so we could be facing a big problem.We have not been notified since Instagram, where we use the same credentials (email and password) as in Dropbox.
Our recommendation is that on the platforms, services, and social networks in which you use the same credentials as in Dropbox,you change them too. The same thing doesn't happen, but it may be that they get access to them and it doesn't cost anything to prevent.
We at Instagram change it.
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