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The anonymous user, who claims to have hacked
close to 7 million accounts, is calling for Bitcoin donations to
fund the operation.
"We will keep releasing more to the public as donations come in,
show your support," the anonymous Pastebin user said on the
site.
Dropbox, however, said it has not been hacked.
"These usernames and passwords were unfortunately stolen from
other services and used in attempts to log in to Dropbox
accounts. We'd previously detected these attacks and the vast
majority of the passwords posted have been expired for some time
now. All other remaining passwords have been expired as well," a
Dropbox spokesman said in an email to Reuters.
Dropbox is a Silicon Valley startup that has proved a hit with
consumers and boasts more than 200 million users six years after
it was started. It has undergone tremendous growth amid the
meteoric rise of cloud, which is expected to continue booming
alongside mobile computing.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden last week advised those
concerned about their privacy to "get rid of Dropbox" and cease
using Facebook and Google.
(Reporting by Supriya Kurane in Bangalore; Editing by Gopakumar
Warrier)
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