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Dave Gamache via Dropbox Paper

Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
68.6M
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
2
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2012
Dropbox

Breach History

Dropbox
Jul 2012Critical
68.6M
Records exposed
2
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In mid-2012, Dropbox suffered a data breach which exposed the stored credentials of tens of millions of their customers. In August 2016, they forced password resets for customers they believed may be at risk. A large volume of data totalling over 68 million records was subsequently traded online and included email addresses and salted hashes of passwords (half of them SHA1, half of them bcrypt).

Exposed Data Types
Email addressesPasswords
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Email addressesLow risk
PasswordsHigh risk