Dropbox rejects hacker attacks – VG

There is no hold in the claim that Dropbox accounts have been hacked, claims the company itself. It may still be wise to upgrade the security of your password.

On Tuesday, the 400 e-mail addresses and passwords published on the website pastebin, and it was claimed that this was only a small part of a large theft of login information to Users of cloud service Dropbox.

The entire seven million accounts should have received their passwords stolen, according to the message, which called Bitcoins in ransom for the theft.

Bitcoins are a digital “currency”, which are not issued or regulated by a central bank or regulatory authority. The money “issued” by a computer program creates new Bitcoins.

Stolen elsewhere

But Dropbox reject certain that this is customer information from their users.

– things are safe. User names and passwords are referring to was stolen from non-related services, and not from Dropbox. Attackers have then used the information they have stolen to try to login several places online, including Dropbox, the company said in a statement.

They claim that they have appropriate measures in place that recognize suspicious login activity and automatically resets the password when it happens. But at the same time they encourage their users to upgrade their security to include a password by SMS.

Bløffmakere

VG security analyst Einar Otto Stangvik think it is bløffmakere behind the alleged burglary of Dropbox password.

– I think basically this is trickery, which only aims to lure Bitcoins. Usernames and passwords leaked may originate from other burglaries, the other services, he said

In recent years, hundreds of millions of passwords leaked through several major security breaches. Because many people use the same password multiple places, the password has been stolen from a service also work elsewhere.

You can check if your email address is included in major thefts password on websites as haveibeenpwned.com.

Four Rules

Norwegian Centre for Information Security has four rules for selecting passwords:

1. A password will be easy for you to remember and hard for others to guess

2. Use different passwords for different services

3. The password should be as far as possible

4. Change passwords at regular intervals or if you think it is astray