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Balasubramanian: The Dropbox breach actually resulted from reused credentials from other leaks

Vijay Balasubramaniyan · a16z Podcast | Making Security More Useable · Jan 2, 2019 · at 26:05

Vijay Balasubramanian, CEO of Pindrop, cites the Dropbox credential leak to illustrate how multi-platform threat vectors operate across enterprise silos.

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“We saw this in the entire Dropbox leak, right? Like everyone said Dropbox had been compromised, But what these fraudsters had done had figured out username, passwords, and all these other breaches that actually worked on Dropbox.”

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