Cloud storage service Dropbox has scoffed recent security breach reports, which claim its accounts have been hacked and hackers have passwords and usernames in their possession.
The reaction from Dropbox comes after hackers claimed that they have access tho details of 6.9 million Dropbox accounts. Hackers are demanding digital money in exchange for revealing the weakness in Dropbox.
Anton Mityagin of Dropbox said that hackers’ chief motive was to extract money and the details they have with them have been stolen elsewhere from the internet.
In reassuring the users, he said, “The usernames and passwords referenced in these articles were stolen from unrelated services, not Dropbox. Attackers then used these stolen credentials to try to log in to sites across the internet, including Dropbox.”
“We have measures in place to detect suspicious login activity and we automatically reset passwords when it happens”, he further added.
Some security experts like the Melbourne-based Mike Thompson attributes the failure to third-party services, which Dropbox has been pushing aggressively. According to Thompson when a single account is compromised it compromises all other accounts of the users.
Further Thomson says that users should have different passwords for different services and suggests the use of password vault though an expensive proposal.
Dropbox is one of the few start-ups to have made rapid strides in providing cloud services. It is reputed to have 200 million users currently and is growing at a phenomenal rate.
