Past Dropbox Use Casts Spectre

A hack that occurred nearly four years ago is coming back to haunt Dropbox, with the data now appearing for sale on a darknet marketplace. Dropbox only announced the breach last week, notifying the affected users that the company would be resetting their passwords. The data reportedly includes the email addresses and hashed passwords that were obtained in the 2012 hack, which Dropbox officials blamed on an employee's reused password. The vendor is offering the trove for a mere 2 BTC making it likely that many of salted and hashed passwords have not yet been decrypted. Either that or after the Peace trove, passwords are cheap. Him in our time

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