In a recent disclosure, Dropbox revealed that a security breach had occurred. On GitHub, 130 of the company’s source code repositories have been accessed unauthorizedly by the threat actors.
Threat actors gained access to the GitHub repositories of Dropbox by using the stolen credentials of a Dropbox employee.
One day before the breach took place on October 14, GitHub notified Dropbox about the occurrence of suspicious activities.
Dropbox Data Breach
The data accessed by the threat actors contained the following data, among which the developers mainly use some:-
While apart from this, the number of registered users of Dropbox has grown to over 700 million. In this case, Dropbox employees were targeted by a phishing attack which resulted in a successful breach.
What Should You Do?
Because some of our users use dropbox to host their packs, we kindly ask you to change your password!
Dropbox Statement:
“The issue was quickly resolved, and no one’s content, passwords, or payment information was exposed due to this incident. In addition to our core applications and infrastructure, we have ensured that access to this code was limited to the most strict guidelines, allowing for its strict control.” Dropbox stated in the press release.
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