Dropbox tightens cloud storage
San Francisco-based Dropbox acknowledged on Tuesday its storage service was compromised by attackers using recently stolen passwords from other Web sites.
The compromised Dropbox employee account contained a project document with user e-mail addresses, a likely cause of a recently frustrating spam campaign targeting Dropbox users.
According to PC World, other security upgrades include a new page that shows logs of user activity and other automated mechanisms for identifying suspicious activity.
Dropbox may also start prompting users to change passwords that have been in use for a long time.
BBC News reports that Dropbox declined to reveal how many of the accounts had been compromised. Its site says it has more than 50 million users and is installed onto 250 million devices.
Security company Sophos brands the breach “a mixture of poor practice both inside and outside the organisation”.
Several of the storage site's users also expressed concern. Some questioned why their details had been stored in an insecure location
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