Given the nature of the files that some Dropbox users store on their accounts (payment details, passwords and other sensitive information), the company was quick to state that it would roll out the new security feature to make it harder for attackers to gain access to other users’ accounts.ĭropbox will be rolling this out to all accounts via an app update in the very near future, but if you want to try it now you can do so using the steps noted above. Using the Dropbox employee’s login details, the attackers had been able to gain access to another list of users, which then started to receive spam and unsolicited mail. The company did some investigating and found that some user’s credentials had been leaked on a third-party website, one set of which belonged to a Dropbox employee. Back in July, it emerged that a number of users were receiving spam on accounts that were only used for Dropbox purposes. The original Dropbox hack was the result of a Dropbox employee using the same password for both his LinkedIn and corporate Dropbox. If you are just one large video file away from being over quota, sending that file presents a challenge. For instance, with a shared link, the content needs to be inside your Dropbox folder, which affects your storage quota. The cloud storage company sent out notices last week to all users who had not changed their passwords since 2012. You could already do most of this with a Dropbox shared link, but what you couldn’t do before Transfer turned out to be significant for many of our users. You might be asking why Dropbox has decided to roll this out now. Dropbox has stated that most passwords were encrypted with a strong cipher, but others were not. If you’ve already switched on two-factor authentication on your Google account, it will all be very familiar. Once it is set up, you will be able to receive unique access codes via SMS, or via an app that uses Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) - which includes Google Authenticator (Android/iPhone/BlackBerry), Amazon AWS MFA (Android) and Authenticator (Windows Phone 7).
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