Dropbox Suffers Data Breach Following Phishing Attack

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Summary Of The Attack

  • On November 1 of this year, Dropbox confirmed that it had experienced a data breach
  • An unknown attacker gained access to credentials, data, and other secrets within their private GitHub code repositories.
  • Dropbox did disclose that certain plain text secrets, such as API keys and other credentials, were included in the code.
  • A “few thousand names and email addresses belonging to Dropbox employees were also exposed.
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