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Dropbox just disclosed ~5,000 compromised accounts😬 (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Camila@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The interesting part is that it came through a legacy Lenovo ID authentication flow, not some crazy “encryption got broken” scenario.

Makes you wonder where the real weak point in cloud storage usually is — encryption, login, or third-party integrations?

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[–] Camila@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

True, 5k isn’t huge compared to some breaches, lol. What caught my attention was that files were actually accessed in some of those accounts. Makes me wonder how much a storage provider should be able to expose if an account gets compromised in the first place.