Millions of Dropbox Accounts Potentially Compromised
It's been a rough few days for Dropbox. The popular cloud storage service recently had a bug in its Selective Sync system where many users suffered data loss. And if that weren't bad enough, it looks like nearly 7 million Dropbox accounts may have been compromised. Dropbox is used by bitcoin users around the world, many of whom keep unencrypted wallet.dat backups in their Dropbox. If this sounds like you, now would be a good time to change your Dropbox password, enable two-step verification, and only store an encrypted wallet backup in the cloud. Just yesterday, an unnamed hacker group....
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