Hackers are threatening a major breach in Dropbox security, claiming to have stolen the login details of almost 7 million users, and promising to release more password details if they’re paid a Bitcoin ransom.
However, Dropbox has denied it has been hacked, saying the passwords were stolen from third-party services.
An entry on Pastebin, posted on October 13 at 4:10 p.m. CDT, shows a list of 400 emails and matching plain text passwords, claimed to be part of a large-scale Dropbox hack.
The login details for the 400 email addresses, each one starting with the letter B, have been labelled as a “first teaser…just to get things going”. The perpetrators are also promising to release more details if they’re paid for the information.
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