Yesterday we made a code update at 1:54pm Pacific time that introduced a bug affecting our authentication mechanism. Update: Here’s the company’s blog post, which just went live: The team is now investigating if any accounts were improperly accessed, and says that anyone who was impacted will be notified. The company will be announcing that “much less than 1 percent” of users logged in during this time, and that all sessions have now been logged out as a security precaution. The question now is how many people were affected. So, in total, the bug was live for around four hours. We’ve now confirmed with Dropbox that the service did have this issue yesterday - Dropbox says that it began after a code push at 1:54 PM PDT and was fixed at 5:46 PM PDT (they had the fix live five minutes after they discovered it). In other words, you could log into someone’s account simply by typing in their email address. Given that many people entrust Dropbox with important data (one of the service’s selling points is its security), that’s a really big deal. This will rename the existing Dropbox folder to 'Dropbox (Old)' and will create a new Dropbox folder for the account you’re currently linking.This morning a post on Pastebin outlined a serious security issue that was spotted at Dropbox: for a brief period of time, the service allowed users to log into accounts using any password.
If you want your new Dropbox folder to be in the same location as your existing one, click on 'Install'. If you want your new Dropbox folder to be in a location different than your existing folder, click on 'Choose Another Location'. Note that the Dropbox folder itself is still there so if you relink to a different Dropbox account, the application will detect that another Dropbox folder already exists on the computer, and will give you two options: 'Choose Another Location' or 'Install'. You can now safely move or delete files in the Dropbox folder and not affect anything else. In this case, I'd suggest sharing a folder from your one account to the other with all the files you'd like to be on both accounts.įrom there, you'll need to unlink the account you've already linked to your computer through the app's preferences and, then, link the new one.ġ) Right-click the Dropbox icon in the system tray, or menu bar, by the clockĢ) Click on your profile picture or initials to the right of the search bar and select 'Preferences' > 'Account'Ĥ) Afterward, Dropbox will prompt you to re-register. Hi welcome aboard and thanks for using Dropbox!
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