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Personally , i have a thing about trusting the security of cloud services , although i don't use it to store personal data and other valuable information in the fear of a privacy violation and because i don't have a unlimited data connection ,millions of users dont share my opinion and they use such services and keep using them on a daily basis , DropBox - one of the most popular cloud storing sites are now acknowledging a new mega- incident where hackers stole passwords of 7 million DropBox passwords .The incident was denied by Dropbox at first , but after hackers demanded ransom via bit coin - and posting 400 passwords on PasteBin , Quote - Here is another batch of Hacked Dropbox accounts from the massive hack of 7,000,000 accounts To see plenty more, just search on [redacted] for the term Dropbox hack. More to come, keep showing your support things started to get a little serious as hackers claim that the remaining 6.9 million passwords and accounts will be vi...

Dropbox , as you know is one of the most famous cloud storage networks in the known world , offering you gigabytes of online storage , the service became very common after smartphone manufacturers started bundling free storage with their respective devices Although we have our doubts about the security and the privacy of storing stuff online , cloud storage services have been beneficial to many . and one benefit of cloud services like Dropbox was file sharing , and most of the time , many of the shared files were usually ripped music , movies and other material that was uploaded to share among friends and other interested parties.But now ,Dropbox has started scanning all uploaded files that are set for sharing online. The move was not public , but a user found out about it the hard way when a personal folder was issued a DMCA take down. wow. @dropbox DMCA takedown in personal folders . . . this is new to me. pic.twitter.com/fSKxJUrFus — darrell whitelaw (@darrellwhitela...

We live In a world that is rapidly evolving ,we shifted from harddrives to flash.memory and now we are about to embrace cloud storage as the next step in evolution ,but did we ever think about the cons of the cloud ? And the possible dangers it may pose to our privacy ? Apple's co founder Steve Wozniak (the woz ) after a trade show in Washington said " I am really worried about everything going to the cloud ,I think it is horrendous and I think there are going to be many problems in the next 5 years " what he says is true ....most of us simply dump our important documents to a cloud storage and sometimes forget to encrypt a password ...even if it is encrypted it still can be accessed ....imagine if a PSN (PLAYSTATION NETWORK HACK OF 2011)  style hack happens to a cloud service ...all your photos and important files remain at the fate of the hackers who may use it for their purposes ...and what if your data suddenly gets confiscated for no reason ...most cloud sites have t...