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Dropbox says about 5,000 accounts compromised in August hack

Dropbox said on Tuesday that around 5,000 ​accounts were compromised ​last month, with hackers viewing and downloading ​content stored on the cloud-storage platform.

Some Dropbox users received an email from the company ‌on Monday ⁠notifying ⁠them that their accounts have been accessed without authorization between ​August 4 and August 21, Dropbox confirmed after Bloomberg News ​reported the hack earlier in the day.

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