The company had launched investigations into the accounts after some users reported receiving spam. Regarding the latest breach, the company said someone had stolen usernames and passwords and used them to sign in to a “small number of Dropbox accounts.” The company said it has contacted these users and helped them to secure their accounts. And Dropbox also probably has a Trojan-horse strategy to sneak into the enterprise by way of avid users who lobby their employers to be able to use it. It’s also obvious, though, that many users are adopting Dropbox for use in the workplace (we use Dropbox at VentureBeat, among several other products, including the more enterprise-focused Box, for example). To be sure, Dropbox has been pretty clear that it intends to remain focused on viral adoption by consumers and that it isn’t focused on the enterprise. And by and large, CIOs are giving the green light to applications that are served online, especially if they play safely, and behind the firewall. Already, at our CloudBeat 2011 event last year, Dropbox’s big security snafu in June of that year was one of the most oft-cited examples of the security risks in moving to the cloud. These CIOs are busy scrutinizing cloud services to make sure they are safe for adoption. With this third breach, Dropbox has become a problem child among chief information officers. Even before the breach last year, the company had announced that it was dedicated to security, so it’s getting hard to take the company seriously. Larger, more conservative companies are more likely to say no to adopting it.
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