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The hack, which took place in 2012…wait a minute, 2012? Let me just check that. Yeah, apparently DropBox got hacked in 2012.
That’s a good question.
It turns out that back in 2012, DropBox did report the hack, stating that a number of email addresses had been stolen. But last week, Dropbox found itself in the embarrassing situation of having to announce that it had performed a mass account reset, and any user who hadn’t changed their passwords since mid-2012 was forced to change it in order to keep using Dropbox.
“Our security teams are always watching out for new threats to our users. As part of these ongoing efforts, we learned about an old set of Dropbox user credentials (email addresses plus hashed and salted passwords) that we believe was obtained in 2012. Our analysis suggests that the credentials relate to an incident we disclosed around that time.”
The 2012 hack, wasn’t so much of a hack, as carelessness on the part of one DropBox employee, and luck on the part of the hackers. When LinkedIn found itself hacked in 2012 as well, the hackers happened to steal an old LinkedIn password of a hapless DropBox employee, which was unfortunately still the employee’s password for his corporate Dropbox account. The hackers then used this to access the DropBox network. What happened next was perhaps, inevitable.
At the time Dropbox practiced good user data security practice, encrypting the passwords and appears to have been in the process of upgrading the encryption from the SHA1 standard to a more secure standard called Bcrypt. That said, at the time, the company had only completed the new encryption protocol for about half its users.
The fact the DropBox breach was caused by the hack of another company only serves to highlight the importance of making sure you regularly change your password for online accounts, and enable 2 step verification whenever you can.
In the Will Ferrell/Zach Galifianakis comedy “The Campaign,” the quintessential good guy loses the election. He bemoans the results by saying he doesn’t understand what happened since he was ahead in the polls. The POV switches to the stickers on the voting machines; they were made by the victorious incumbent’s major donors, the “Motch Brothers.”
The reality is far from funny, though, as this year’s election circus is proving. There have been rampant reports of voter fraud in districts across the country, and one state went so far as to shut down the driver’s license offices in its majority-black counties (as driver’s licenses are required for voting in that state). There have been hints that the election is already corrupted, and speculation that there will be public outcry after the fact.
But now there’s a new cause for alarm: an alert issued by the FBI that hackers breached two different states’ election boards and nabbed voter databases.
According to a report based on sources within the FBI: “The bulletin does not identify the states in question, but sources familiar with the document say it refers to the targeting by suspected foreign hackers of voter registration databases in Arizona and Illinois. In the Illinois case, officials were forced to shut down the state’s voter registration system for 10 days in late July, after the hackers managed to download personal data on up to 200,000 state voters.
Ken Menzel, the general counsel of the Illinois Board of Elections, said in an interview. The Arizona attack was more limited, involving malicious software that was introduced into its voter registration system but no successful ex-filtration of data, a state official said.”
This news comes at a time when one of the candidates has taken criticism for offering to pay Russian hackers if they break into his opponent’s email account.
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