Not specifically no, it just happened around 2008 I think and exposed login details for millions of customers, many of whom had used those login details elsewhere.
https://haveibeenpwned.com/ is a great way of checking if your login details have ever been exposed in historic hacks and goes some way to explaining the spam emails doing the rounds saying “I know your password, it’s X and I’ll hack you if you don’t give me money” Sam MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen +44 (0)7747778022 [email protected] www.macambulance.co.uk MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. On 31 Aug 2019, at 10:51, 'andrew lancaster' via Sussex Mac User Group <[email protected]> wrote: Interesting idea - is Dropbox prone to being hacked? More so than other things? I was planning to use it more but might not do … Andrew > On 30 Aug 2019, at 1:02 pm, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I meant more if he’d signed up to (for example) Dropbox with those same login > details, then Dropbox gets hacked, exposing those login details for use on > other services > > Sam > > > MacAmbulance Ltd. > Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development > > Sam Mullen > +44 (0)7747778022 > [email protected] > www.macambulance.co.uk > MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration > number 8466597 > > This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain > privileged or confidential information. > If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete > the email immediately. > > > > On 30 Aug 2019, at 11:30, 'andrew lancaster' via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Sam. > > I wouldn’t have thought that the password was THAT easy to guess - but it is > going to be changed for something much more robust! His email address was on > his website and still is. Perhaps that is the problem… > > Andrew > > >> On 30 Aug 2019, at 10:50 am, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Was his mailbox password easy to guess? Or had it been re-used with his >> email address on a different website? >> >> Sam >> >> MacAmbulance Ltd. >> Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development >> >> Sam Mullen >> +44 (0)7747778022 >> [email protected] >> www.macambulance.co.uk >> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration >> number 8466597 >> >> This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain >> privileged or confidential information. >> If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete >> the email immediately. >> >> >>> On 30 Aug 2019, at 08:24, 'andrew lancaster' via Sussex Mac User Group >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> My partner has noticed that he has had no emails for a couple of weeks. I >>> logged on to my easyspace control panel and found this >>> >>> <Screen Shot 2019-08-30 at 8.20.03 am.png> >>> >>> >>> <Screen Shot 2019-08-30 at 8.20.37 am.png> >>> >>> >>> Is this AVG software safe to run on my iMac? I have an inbuilt distrust of >>> things I don’t understand! 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