2012 Dropbox Hack Spilled Emails, Hashed Passwords on 68 Million

When hackers infiltrated Dropbox in 2012 they made off with credentials for roughly 68 million users. The fact that the online storage site was hacked four years ago was no secret. But details around the sheer size of the stolen database, which contains users’ email addresses plus hashed and salt...

LinkedIn Breach Just Got A Lot Worse: 117 Million New Logins For Sale

Over 117 million LinkedIn user logins are for sale on the black market “The Real Deal” by hacker “Peace” for five Bitcoins $2,280. The breach is tied to an earlier hack on LinkedIn in 2012, when the company originally said 6.5 million accounts had been compromised. The hacker, identified as Peace...