{"id":291,"date":"2016-09-01T07:57:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T14:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/information-systems\/2016\/09\/01\/chapman-university-dropbox-user-accounts-not-affected-by-dropbox-security-breach\/"},"modified":"2016-09-01T07:57:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T14:57:39","slug":"chapman-university-dropbox-user-accounts-not-affected-by-dropbox-security-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/information-systems\/2016\/09\/01\/chapman-university-dropbox-user-accounts-not-affected-by-dropbox-security-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapman University DropBox User Accounts Not Affected By DropBox Security Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have read about a recent security breach at Dropbox.\u00a0 Chapman signed an institutional agreement with Dropbox in 2015, and as a result, we have hundreds of Dropbox users on campus.\u00a0 So we think it\u2019s important to reach out to the campus and outline any impact on Chapman.\u00a0 Back in 2012, prior to the Chapman agreement, DropBox experienced a high level security breach. \u00a0This breach resulted in over 68 million user accounts being compromised by hackers and personal information being sold online on the dark web. \u00a0Recently, an article titled “Why DropBox’s data breach response is still wrong<\/a>” was released and it\u00a0addresses this incident and how it was not appropriately handled by DropBox. The article raises some valid concerns, so it is even more important to point out that this did not involve any Chapman University accounts<\/p>\n

At this time,\u00a0we know that\u00a0Chapman University user accounts are not affected\u00a0by this massive breach. \u00a0We are currently working with DropBox to get more information and will update this post when more information becomes available.<\/p>\n

There are many reasons as to why, and it is important that we highlight the top 3 reasons.<\/p>\n

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  1. Chapman University has created a security structure that forces all users to create complex passwords using a combination of the following:\n