If you do happen to come across file that seems strange, do not open it (I can’t stress this enough) and delete it immediately. I would also suggest taking a look through your file folders and scan for anything that looks unfamiliar. How do I Protect Myself?Īs with any security breach of a cloud based services, the first thing you should do is change your account passwords. It seems rather likely to me that the two are related. Dropbox officials have denied this, but when there is smoke, there is usually fire. It is also rumored that a recent outage of the service was related to the hacker attack. I also wonder how many users would even know what unauthorized access looks like to report it anyway. Once again, this is hearsay and we have no evidence of this at this time, but it wouldn’t shock me in the least if it were true.ĭropbox representatives state that no unauthorized account access has been reported so far. There is also a buzz in many tech forums that malware might have been deposited into user file folders as well.

According to reports, hackers have hijacked user account information and are currently using it to flood Dropbox customers with spam from foreign gambling sites. It seems the popular cloud based file storage and collaboration service Dropbox has suffered an embarrassing security breach.

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