The poster added instructions for affected users to pay with Bitcoin and send them an "exclude" email if they wanted their credentials removed from public view.ĭropbox's Mr Mityagin said in an update to his blog entry on Tuesday night that the company had checked "a subsequent list" of login credentials and found that none of the details were associated with Dropbox accounts.ĭespite Mr Mityagin reassuring account holders the company automatically resets user passwords whenever "suspicious activity" occurred, an apparently benevolent Pastebin user claimed to have run a script to "unhack" the leaked accounts by changing their passwords. The post claimed 90 per cent of the supposed Dropbox accounts contained files that were "NSFW" – online slang for "not safe for work", referring to content that is unsuitable to be viewed in public, such as that containing nudity, or is pornographic or profane. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden thinks consumers should scrap services like Dropbox altogether.
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