It was unclear who wrote the post on 's Facebook page, which has been active since 2013. Yesterday, said on its Facebook page that it deleted its entire Web site and database as soon as it discovered the intrusion. The prospect that a torrent of photos will be made publicly available via an indexed, online database has raised concerns about potentially racy images of minors. SnapChat last week blamed third-party apps, which can be downloaded separately and used in conjunction with its service, for any photos that may have been stolen or leaked. However, users can employ special Web sites and third-party apps like to save images they receive on their smartphones, with or without the sender's and SnapChat's knowledge. The claim by the little-known Web site sheds some light on reports in past days that hackers were preparing to unleash 13GB of photographs sent via SnapChat, a mobile app popular among teenagers that promises users that any pictures relayed to other users will be deleted in a matter of seconds. Meanwhile,, a Web site which allows users to save images sent via Snapchat, claimed yesterday that hackers had breached its servers and made off with 500MB of photographs. NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden last week advised those concerned about their privacy to "get rid of Dropbox" and cease using Facebook and Google.
It has undergone tremendous growth amid the meteoric rise of cloud, which is expected to continue booming alongside mobile computing. All other remaining passwords have been expired as well," a Dropbox spokesman said in an e-mail to Reuters.ĭropbox is a Silicon Valley start-up that has proved a hit with consumers and boasts more than 200 million users six years after it was started. We'd previously detected these attacks and the vast majority of the passwords posted have been expired for some time now. "These usernames and passwords were, unfortunately, stolen from other services and used in attempts to log in to Dropbox accounts. "We will keep releasing more to the public as donations come in, show your support," the anonymous Pastebin user said on the site.ĭropbox, however, said it has not been hacked.
The anonymous user, who claims to have hacked close to seven million accounts, is calling for Bitcoin donations to fund the operation. Hundreds of alleged usernames and passwords for online document-sharing site Dropbox were published yesterday on Pastebin, an anonymous information-sharing Web site.
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