Claims: Legacy Lenovo login opens 5,000 Dropbox accounts to attackers

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1. title: Legacy Lenovo login opens 5,000 Dropbox accounts to attackers (alleges; supported) Source
2. url: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/02/legacy-lenovo-login-opens-5000-dropbox-accounts-to-attackers/5293924 (alleges; supported) Source
3. summary: Dropbox has warned around 5,000 users that attackers compromised their accounts by abusing a legacy Lenovo login integration. In an email sent to affected customers, the cloud storage biz said attackers exploited an integration that allowed users to access Dropbox using Lenovo IDs. Dropbox blamed "an issue with Lenovo's email verification process," which allowed attackers to register Lenovo IDs using Dropbox users' email addresses and then access the corresponding storage accounts. It did not ex… (alleges; supported) Source
4. published: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:25:00 +0200 (alleges; supported) Source