4-Year-Old Dropbox Hack Exposed 68 Million People’s Data

For hackers, years-old leaks of millions of people’s private credentials don’t expire. Instead, they become a kind of collector’s item.

Since people so often reuse passwords, or use easily guessable variations on a theme, the data in a trove of usernames and passwords can help bad actors access all sorts of accounts, whether it’s from last week or half a decade ago. Now the latest old hack to resurface has exposed 68 million user credentials from Dropbox, and its apparent age shouldn’t be much comfort to anyone whose data was stolen.