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Title: Dropbox Password Failure Puts Users’ Files at Risk for Four Hours
Post by: HCK on June 21, 2011, 03:00:32 pm
Dropbox Password Failure Puts Users’ Files at Risk for Four Hours
      


Security researcher Christopher Soghoian discovered yesterday that it was possible to log into a Dropbox account using any password. Random letters, single letters, anything. He quickly contacted Dropbox, and got an e-mail from the company’s CTO Arash Ferdowsi, claiming that it was a “very brief glitch.” The company later posted an article on their blog [...]
      

http://blog.intego.com/2011/06/21/dropbox-password-failure-puts-users-files-at-risk-for-four-hours/