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As a service that literally stores everyones data, a breach is the last thing this company wants on its resumé. Unfortunately, that made them an obvious target for hackers. With another hack that happened four years ago, data revealed in 2016 showed the 68 million users were at risk for stolen passwords and usernames.

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Over a month ago, The Hacker News reported about the Dropbox Hack, where hackers had managed to steal more than 68 Million Dropbox accounts in a data breach that was initially disclosed by the online cloud storage platform in 2012.

Although the initial announcement failed to reveal the true scale of the data breach, it was in late August when the breach notification service LeakBase obtained files containing details on over 68 million accounts, which contains email addresses and hashed passwords for Dropbox users.

Last month, a hacker was selling this Dropbox data dump on a Dark Web marketplace known as TheRealDeal for around $1200.

However, Motherboard recently discovered that a researcher has just uploaded the full dump of hacked Dropbox database online.

Download DropBox Data Dump Here:

Thomas White, known online as The Cthulhu, uploaded Monday the full Dropbox data dump onto his website in a move, as he claims, to help security researchers examine the data breach.

So, anyone can now download the leaked database of 68,680,741 Dropbox accounts, containing email addresses and hashed passwords, totally for FREE.

"The ... dump was allegedly taken from Dropbox sometime in 2012 following a breach," White writes on his website. "I have assisted [in keeping] this breach public for those who are struggling to find a reliable source for research."

White is the same person who previously dumped accounts from massive data breaches in large enterprises, including extramarital affairs site Ashley Madison, social networking site Myspace, and more.

The good news is that out of 68 Million, around 32 Million passwords are secured using strong hashing function BCrypt, which makes it difficult for hackers to obtain many of users' actual passwords.

The rest of the account passwords are hashed with the SHA-1 hashing algorithm and also believed to have used a Salt - a random string added to the hashing process to further strengthen passwords to make it harder for hackers to crack them.

Moreover, the company previously ensured its affected customers that there is no evidence of any malicious access of their accounts, saying "Based on our threat monitoring and the way we secure passwords, we do not believe that any accounts have been improperly accessed."

Dropbox is one of many " Mega-Breaches" revealed this summer, when hundreds of millions of account credentials from years-old data breaches on famous social network sites, including LinkedIn, MySpace, VK.com and Tumblr, were exposed online.

The best way to protect yourself is to change your passwords for Dropbox and other online accounts, especially if you are using the same password for multiple websites, as well as use a good password manager to create and manage complex passwords for different sites.

However, DropBox has already emailed all affected users and completed a password reset process for anyone who had not updated their password since mid-2012, ensuring that hackers can not access your Dropbox accounts even if they crack leaked passwords.

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Download: 68 Million Hacked Dropbox Accounts are Just a Click Away!

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Over a month ago, The Hacker News reported about the Dropbox Hack, where hackers had managed to steal more than 68 Million Dropbox accounts in a data breach that was initially disclosed by the online cloud storage platform in 2012.

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An Australian teenager has pleaded guilty to hacking Apple, stealing 90 gigabytes of secure files, and accessing customer accounts.

The 16-year-old broke into Apple's mainframe several times over the course of a year, according to The Age, and stored hacking instructions on his laptop under a folder named "hacky hack hack."

Apple identified and reported the hack to the FBI. It said "at no point during this incident" was personal user data compromised.

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An Australian teenager has pleaded guilty to hacking Apple, stealing 90 gigabytes of secure files, and accessing customer accounts.

The 16-year-old broke into Apple's mainframe several times over the course of a year, according to The Age, and stored hacking instructions on his laptop under a folder named "hacky hack hack."

Apple identified and reported the hack to the FBI. It said "at no point during this incident" was personal user data compromised.

An Australian teenager managed to hack Apple, steal 90 gigabytes of secure files, and access customer accounts, a court has heard, according to The Age.

The Australian newspaper reported on the hearing, which took place at a children's court in Melbourne on Thursday, and has prompted Apple into issuing a statement reassuring users that their data is safe.

The Age said the 16-year-old - who cannot be named for legal reasons - broke into Apple's mainframe several times over the course of a year, using a system of "computerised tunnels and online bypassing systems."

He downloaded secure files and accessed customer accounts, using instructions stored on his Apple laptops, seized in a raid on his suburban home, under a folder named "hacky hack hack."

Apple detected his presence and reported the teenager to the FBI, who in turn passed the case to Australian police. The suspect has pleaded guilty, The Age said, and Reuters reported that he will be sentenced on September 20.

The teenager's lawyer reportedly said he targeted Apple because he is an admirer of the trillion-dollar company and hopes to work for it one day. He is said to be well-known in the international hacking community.

Business Insider has contacted Apple for comment. In a statement to Reuters and The Guardian, the company sought to play down the impact of the hack.

"At Apple, we vigilantly protect our networks and have dedicated teams of information security professionals that work to detect and respond to threats," a spokesman said.

"In this case, our teams discovered the unauthorised access, contained it, and reported the incident to law enforcement. We regard the data security of our users as one of our greatest responsibilities and want to assure our customers that at no point during this incident was their personal data compromised."

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3 recent hacks-

Rockstar games-someone coded an ingame message saying GTA6 available for preorder and exploited it for money. To prevent this, rockstar should not make the code open, which makes it easy for people to exploit and edit the base game.

Apple-icloud was hacked so hackers got users infomation, designs of new devices were posted online. To prevent this, apple should keep the information on a private server that only higher ups of the company know about.

Instagram-hackers got around 6 million accounts because of a bug in the Instagram code, this included verified users. They should add 2 step verification so they know if they are being brute force attacked.

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the NHS got hacked because they used a outdated windows  version that contained an exploit used to shut the system down and could be prevented if they kept the system updated

ticketmaster had a data breach that effected 40000 consumers, things being taken included personal data like payment information, they where breached via malware infection from a 3rd party software, they could have prevented it by checking any software they are planning to use before using it

coca-cola had a large data breach that caused many employees personal info was taken by a former employee that stole a hard drive however the data wasn't used maliciously

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three recent hacks in ict sector?

1.anonymous
2.TSA documents leaked
3.NSA 5th breach

explain how they were breach security?
1.an anonymous hacker pulled down huge chunks of the dark web that included child abuse imagery
2.documents breached from a password less backup then one was leaked to the public
3.vitual disk image owned by a diversion of the NSA from an army intelligence program leaked to the public

explain how they can be stopped?
use security suvalence cameras to watch your account

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Under armour
Under armour my fitness palapp was hacked in late February compromising usernames, email addresses, and passwords. The hackers couldn't access things like credit card numbers, birthdays and location.

US universities

Iranian hackers hacked into universities over 144 us universities and then they managed to get into 176 universities in 21 other countries. they also got into 47 private companies and other targets like the united nations, the us federal energy regulatory commission. The hackers managed to steal over 31 terabytes of data and an estimated 3 billion in intellectual property.

Russian grid hacking
in 2017 Russian hackers attempted to gain control over Americas power companies and there was even evidence that they had access to the American utilitys control systems.

Under armour fitness app hacked nothing that valuable was stolen but they were able to get account usernames but the credit card info was protected..using robust they were only able to protect some passwords