Dropbox is a convenient and popular method to store files online to for use on multiple platforms, but it had gone under fire recently. A thread posted on Monday on Reddit had a hacker posting over a hundred usernames and passwords for Dropbox accounts and was willing to sell off the remaining list to the highest bidders.
Luckily, most of the list was expired information and the hacker failed to get any money, however some of the logins and passwords on the list still worked. Naturally, the public was quick to blame DropBox for its security breach. Except for one problem: DropBox wasn’t hacked.
How can that be true? How can hackers gain access to those accounts? Simple really. Just ask yourself: how many websites I use require a login and how many different passwords do I have? There’s your answer. While passwords do expire, that doesn’t stop people from reusing them on less secure sites.
So before we lash out at DropBox, think about the service it provides and ask yourself how you can better protect yourself using a better password. In fact, think about all the other sites you use and change those passwords as well. Read more on this story along with tips on how to choose better passwords here.