I had to close my original account as a result of the break in, and you know what was really interesting? The account compromise happened after I set the account to two-step authentication. For a while it had been a lesser security account. It's possible the break in happened since at the time I enabled two-step authentication I didn't know about setting up app-passwords for mua's used to connect to the account, but I don't know for sure on that one.
On Sat, 7 Dec 2019, Brian wrote: > Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2019 17:20:57 > From: Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: dropbox security situation > Resent-Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2019 22:21:22 +0000 (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On Sat 07 Dec 2019 at 16:45:34 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > One first-hand experience on google account hacking and contacting > > others who were not surprised when I described my situation in earlier > > email. > > Widespread breaking into Google accounts is a myth. You and your > correspondents never provide any evidence. That is enough for me to > completely ignore anything that is said about the matter. > > I am amazed that anyone with a strong password (as you say you have) > is the least bit bothered about their gmail account being broken into/ > > > Two, no change password dropbox will not allow login, so not possible to > > ignore. > > Then, as a customer of dropbox, you do what they tell you. > > --