


The account information includes emails as well as passwords, which are encrypted.ĭropbox head of trust Patrick Heim confirmed in a statement that the usernames and passwords were from mid-2012. Now Motherboard, security expert Troy Hunt, and online leak-tracker LeakedSource have each reported they reviewed stockpiles of account information from Dropbox. It didn't say the list included passwords. Wait, how many accounts were affected by a 2012 hack on Dropbox? About 68 million, according to multiple reports.īack in 2012, Dropbox disclosed that a hacker had accessed its internal systems and accessed a list of user email accounts.
