This amounted to over 300 documents from a small campaign, including several tax returns, a mortgage application, bank information and personal photos. In one short and entirely innocently designed ad campaign alone, we found that about 5 per cent of hits represented full links to shared files, half of which required no password to download. Richard Anstey, Intralinks’s CTO for the EMEA region provided some insight into the scale of the problem: (The image has been redacted below to preserve the individual’s anonymity.)Īnd here is another individual’s mortgage application: No-one is saying that this is a bad thing – the sites concerned aren’t pretending to be something they’re not, and it’s just a healthy competitive marketplace at work, informing you of your choices as a consumer.īut, when Intralinks looked at the data from Google Adwords campaigns that mentioned its competitors Box.com and Dropbox, they found something which shocked them: the fully clickable URLs required to access documents stored on the services, including some containing clearly sensitive information.įor example, here is one person’s income tax return scooped up from Dropbox. Similarly, if you Google “Intralinks file sharing” you’ll see ads for Dropbox and others. It’s the reason why if you Google a phrase like “dropbox secure file sharing” you’ll see ads and links not just for Dropbox, but for competitors too. To disable/stop breach monitoring for all accounts:Lots of companies do this. Email addresses that have already been verified are marked Confirmed. To verify an email address, go to the security dashboard, click Verify next to the email address, and then follow the steps. Note: Only verified email addresses can be monitored. In the dropdown, click Security dashboard.Click your initials in the top right corner.Open the Dropbox Passwords browser extension.Make sure your account logins have been added to Dropbox Passwords.You can choose to enable or disable breach monitoring at any time. Not using Dropbox Passwords yet? See how Dropbox helps you store and sync passwords. This means we cannot see the credentials stored in your account. Note: Dropbox Passwords uses zero-knowledge encryption. You’ll also be directed to the compromised account’s website to change your password.
You can also see other important details such as: the compromised website, breach date, number of people affected, and what data was potentially leaked in the breach. In the Dropbox Passwords security dashboard, you can view which of your accounts, if any, have been compromised. When you opt into breach monitoring, you'll be notified when an account linked to your email address has been exposed and is at an increased risk of being accessed by someone who shouldn’t have that information. Monitoring your accounts in Dropbox Passwords helps keep them secure.
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