In August, security experts revealed that 68 million Dropbox user emails and passwords were hacked and leaked onto the dark web, the secretive section of the internet not found by search engines such as Google. For LinkedIn, the number was 167 million leaked credentials. For Yahoo, more than 500 million.
Perhaps you haven’t considered how these breaches involve you. Think about this question: What email did you use to sign up for these platforms? If you’re a law firm employee, and you used your company email address, you may have opened the law firm up to risk. If you use the same two or three passwords on multiple different accounts, particularly connected with your work log-in, this risk potential skyrockets.
