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"A stolen password was also used to access an employee Dropbox account containing a project document with user email addresses." I see two ways to read this.
by eslaught 14y ago
"A stolen password was also used to access an employee Dropbox account containing a project document with user email addresses."
I see two ways to read this.
a) An employee happened to have a personal Dropbox account, and it was that personal account that was hacked, in exactly the same manner as the other accounts referenced. The employee probably used a different password on Dropbox's internal systems, and as a result there was no internal breach.
b) An employee account for an internal Dropbox system was hacked, and this internal account allowed the attacker to access the project file. In this scenario, even though Dropbox made no specific comments to this effect, we can assume that the attacker may have obtained access to Dropbox's internal networks, so who knows what they could have made off with.
It makes a huge amount of difference to me which of those two readings actually took place. In scenario (a), this all boils down to users (including one particular employee) using the same password on too many sites. In scenario (b), Dropbox could be hiding a much larger breach.
- rdl 14y agoWhy would an employee have work-related data in a personal dropbox account?
- eslaught 14y agoPresumably because they dogfood their own product to their employees. I don't actually know if they do that, but I do know a lot of other companies that do. And it makes sense--if your employees don't use your product on a regular basis, then you're in trouble. But apparently keeping company data in a Dropbox account (personal or otherwise) also has potential security implications.