Graham Cluley reports:
…as Brian Krebs reports, recent claims from identity theft protection firms that Dropbox has suffered a massive password breach appear to be erroneous.
Troy Hunt – who knows a thing or two about verifying and responsibly disclosing data breaches – also chimed in, decrying that some had jumped to the conclusion that a serious breach had occurred without an attempt to independently verify, or even consult Dropbox itself.
Instead, the data swirling around the net appears to be derived from the mega breaches at Tumblr, LinkedIn and MySpace that have recently been in the spotlight.
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