Dropbox says about 5,000 accounts compromised in August hack

Sept 1 : 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.Here are a few details:• 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.• Hackers accessed files in fewer than a third of the compromised accounts, the company said. • Shares of Dropbox fell around 2.4 per cent in extended trading on Tuesday.• Dropbox told Reuters that it identified unauthorized access affecting accounts linked to a Lenovo ID that did not have its two-factor authentication enabled, prompting the company to t