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Dropbox security issues

June 21st, 2011 by Joseph Ruthaford

It has been reported that there was a serious security issue on Dropbox. Apparently for a small period of time which would be for four hours you could log into any Dropbox account without needing to know a legitimate password. From what I have read it actually started around 1:54PM PDT and they repaired it just around 6PM PDT. Luckily the company is stating that only about 1 percent of users actually logged in during this time. I don’t really know how many people actually went through any issues with being hacked so to speak. So Dropbox will be investigating this issue further to stop this from ever happening again. The company has seen some very strong growth numbers in the last year and the last thing they need is security issues that could damage the growth or even stop it dead in its tracks.

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