Another day, another hack. This time it’s Dropbox and the cloud file-sharing service is blaming the breach on a stolen employee password. The company found that usernames and passwords had been stolen from other websites and because of password reuse, the thieves were able to gain access to a small number of Dropbox accounts, including the employee account in question. Dropbox says the compromised account contained a project that listed user email addresses, which led to those users receiving spam emails. There’s a lesson here, kids: don’t reuse passwords! I know it’s annoying, but there’s a reason why experts recommend a different password for every site you use. If you use the same email and password for more than one account, a hacker who gets ahold of your log in credentials can get into more than one of your accounts, which is what happened in this case. Dropbox maintains that there was no intrusion on its internal systems and will be implementing extra security measures in the coming weeks.
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