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Dropbox Discloses Breach of Digital Signature Service Affecting All Users
2024-05-02 10:19

Cloud storage services provider Dropbox on Wednesday disclosed that Dropbox Sign (formerly HelloSign) was breached by unidentified threat actors, who accessed emails, usernames, and general...

Dropbox says attackers accessed customer and MFA info, API keys
2024-05-02 08:49

File hosting service Dropbox has confirmed that attackers have breached the Dropbox Sign production environment and accessed customer personal and authentication information. "Based on our investigation, a third party gained access to a Dropbox Sign automated system configuration tool. The actor compromised a service account that was part of Sign's back-end, which is a type of non-human account used to execute applications and run automated services. As such, this account had privileges to take a variety of actions within Sign's production environment."

Dropbox dropped the ball on security, haemorrhaging customer and third-party info
2024-05-02 00:58

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DropBox says hackers stole customer data, auth secrets from eSignature service
2024-05-01 22:22

Cloud storage firm DropBox says hackers breached production systems for its DropBox Sign eSignature platform and gained access to authentication tokens, MFA keys, hashed passwords, and customer information.DropBox Sign is an eSignature platform allowing customers to send documents online to receive legally binding signatures.

OpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today
2023-12-19 12:09

There's a rumor flying around the Internet that OpenAI is training foundation models on your Dropbox documents. Dropbox isn't sharing all of your documents with OpenAI. But here's the problem: we don't trust OpenAI. We don't trust tech corporations.

Worok Hackers Abuse Dropbox API to Exfiltrate Data via Backdoor Hidden in Images
2022-11-14 06:05

A recently discovered cyber espionage group dubbed Worok has been found hiding malware in seemingly innocuous image files, corroborating a crucial link in the threat actor's infection chain. Czech cybersecurity firm Avast said the purpose of the PNG files is to conceal a payload that's used to facilitate information theft.

130 Dropbox code repos plundered after successful phishing attack
2022-11-02 12:41

Dropbox has suffered a data breach, but users needn't worry because the attackers did not gain access to anyone's Dropbox account, password, or payment information. The compromised repositories contain "Copies of third-party libraries slightly modified for use by Dropbox, internal prototypes, and some tools and configuration files used by the security team" - but not code for Dropbox core apps or infrastructure.

Dropbox Breach: Hackers Unauthorizedly Accessed 130 GitHub Source Code Repositories
2022-11-02 07:10

File hosting service Dropbox on Tuesday disclosed that it was the victim of a phishing campaign that allowed unidentified threat actors to gain unauthorized access to 130 of its source code repositories on GitHub."These repositories included our own copies of third-party libraries slightly modified for use by Dropbox, internal prototypes, and some tools and configuration files used by the security team," the company revealed in an advisory.

Dropbox admits 130 of its private GitHub repos were copied after phishing attack
2022-11-01 23:52

Dropbox has said it was successfully phished, resulting in someone copying 130 of its private GitHub code repositories and swiping some of its secret API credentials. GitHub let Dropbox know the next day, and the cloud storage outfit investigated.

Dropbox discloses breach after hacker stole 130 GitHub repositories
2022-11-01 21:15

Dropbox disclosed a security breach after threat actors stole 130 code repositories after gaining access to one of its GitHub accounts using employee credentials stolen in a phishing attack. "To date, our investigation has found that the code accessed by this threat actor contained some credentials-primarily, API keys-used by Dropbox developers," Dropbox revealed on Tuesday.