Dropbox Has Hired Outside Experts To Investigate Possible Security Breach

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Sarah Perez

The spam attack and related possible address leak over at Dropbox may be even more serious than we originally thought. According to a message posted by the company over on its forums, they’ve now brought in “an outside team of experts” to assist Dropbox’s own security team in the investigation.

As of now, Dropbox says it hasn’t had any reports of unauthorized activity on user accounts, and it has taken a number of precautionary steps to deal with the issue, but declined to go into further details.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/18/dro...curity-breach/

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Dropbox Reports User Accounts Were Hijacked, Adds New Security Features

Rip Empson

Several weeks ago, reports started to trickle out that a number of Dropbox users were under attack from spam. Since then, Dropbox has been investigating those attacks (with some help from a third-party) and today gave the first update on the progress, saying that some accounts were indeed accessed by hackers, but that it is now adding two-factor authentication and other security features to prevent further problems.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/31/dro...rity-features/

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Dropbox gets hacked ... again

Running a secure online service is hard work. It costs money and it requires nonstop vigilance.

It’s the kind of work that gets tested regularly. How a company responds to security challenges defines the difference between earnest startups and companies that deserve to graduate to the big time.

Dropbox just failed that test.

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