{"id":178167,"date":"2016-09-02T12:45:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T10:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=178167"},"modified":"2016-09-02T12:47:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T10:47:16","slug":"dropbox-resets-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/178167-dropbox-resets-passwords.html","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox resets passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dropbox has confirmed that a leak of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dropbox.com\/dropbox\/2016\/08\/resetting-passwords-to-keep-your-files-safe\/\" target=\"_blank\">68 million accounts<\/a><\/strong> is real, and said it was taking precautionary measures to ensure users&#8217; files remain safe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on our analysis, the credentials were likely obtained in 2012,&#8221; said Dropbox.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The list of email addresses with hashed and salted passwords is real, however we have no indication that Dropbox user accounts have been improperly accessed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dropbox said it mailed the users it believed were affected and did a password reset\u00a0for anyone who hadn&#8217;t updated their password since mid-2012.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This reset ensures that even if these passwords are cracked, they can\u2019t be used to access Dropbox accounts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you signed up for Dropbox before mid-2012 and reused your password elsewhere, you should change it on those services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Dropbox<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/161306-facebook-messenger-gets-dropbox-file-sending-and-preview.html\"><strong>Facebook Messenger gets Dropbox file sending and preview<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/134966-dropbox-introduces-u2f-support-for-secure-authentication.html\"><strong>Dropbox introduces U2F support for secure authentication<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/112018-dropbox-passwords-leaked.html\"><strong>Dropbox passwords leaked<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/56323-dropbox-confirms-hack.html\"><strong>Dropbox confirms hack<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dropbox has confirmed that a list of 68 million leaked user accounts is real, and warned users about a possible password reset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":134980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,1922],"class_list":["post-178167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-dropbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178200,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178167\/revisions\/178200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}