Well, sort of one click, after about half a dozen other clicks. You can then open the message and click a link to go to the website and create a new password.ĭid you know that you can replace your old Dropbox password with a brand new and very secure one with one mouse click? You can. You haven’t forgotten it, but this causes Dropbox to send a password reset email to you. You can log in to Dropbox, go to your account settings, then to the security section and the password changer, or go to /forgot and say you forgot it. It is still worrying and whether you received the email from the company or not, it is a good idea to reset the password and replace it with a brand new one.

The email from Dropbox warning of a security breach

From what the company says about this security leak ( see Dropbox help), the passwords would still need to be cracked because they were hashed and salted, which sounds like a cookery recipe, but it is not for baking a cake, it is used when encrypting passwords.Īccounts and passwords created since 2012 appear to be OK and Dropbox has sent out emails and password reset requests for anyone with accounts from 2012 or earlier who might have been among the stolen data. Dropbox discovered that an old set of user credentials (email addresses and passwords), were stolen in 2012.

Dropbox sign in forgot password