Developers Hacked Dropbox, Bypassed Two-Factor Authentication

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Two developers allegedly hacked cloud storage provider Dropbox, bypassing the two-factor authentication and intercepting SSL data from the company’s servers, according to a paper published at USENIX 2013. Dhiru Kholia, from the Openwall open source project, and Przemyslaw Wegrzyn, from consulting agency CodePainters, managed to hack the cloud storage provider through reverse-engineering.

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