http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/13/apparent-hackers-claim-they-have-stolen-nearly-7-million-dropbox-passwords/
By Dylan Tweney
venturebeat.com
October 13, 2014
Hundreds of alleged usernames and passwords for Dropbox have been
published on Pastebin, an anonymous information-sharing site.
The apparent hackers claim to have nabbed 6,937,081 passwords and today
published a “teaser” of 400 username-password pairs. They requested
donations in Bitcoin and promised to release more passwords based on how
much of the virtual currency they receive. The usernames appeared in
alphabetical order starting with [email protected] and ending with
[email protected].
Dropbox, however, says the hack is bogus. The company offered VentureBeat
this response to our inquiry:
Dropbox has not been hacked. These usernames and passwords were
unfortunately stolen from other services and used in attempts to log in
to Dropbox accounts. We’d previously detected these attacks and the vast
majority of the passwords posted have been expired for some time now.
All other remaining passwords have been expired as well.
Subsequently, two more “teasers” appeared on Pastebin.
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