{"id":243669,"date":"2026-09-05T01:11:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/dropbox-accounts-breached-through-lenovo-email-verification-flaw"},"modified":"2026-09-05T01:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:11:56","slug":"dropbox-accounts-breached-through-lenovo-email-verification-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/dropbox-accounts-breached-through-lenovo-email-verification-flaw","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox accounts breached through Lenovo email verification flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dropbox-accounts-breached-through-lenovo-email-verification-flaw2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dropbox is warning some users that an unauthorized party accessed their accounts by exploiting a flaw in Lenovo\u2019s email verification process to register fraudulent Lenovo IDs.<\/p>\n<p>Although some affected users did not have Lenovo accounts, the cloud-storage provider said it uses Lenovo Identity Provider Services as part of its authentication infrastructure. This allows users to log into Dropbox accounts using verified Lenovo IDs.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/x.com\/yonilevy\/status\/2094521566826541248\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">notification<\/a> sent to impacted users, the unauthorized access was possible due to \u201can issue with Lenovo\u2019s email verification process,\u201d which \u201callowed an unauthorized party to register a Lenovo ID using your email address.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dropbox is warning some users that an unauthorized party accessed their accounts by exploiting a flaw in Lenovo\u2019s email verification process to register fraudulent Lenovo IDs. Although some affected users did not have Lenovo accounts, the cloud-storage provider said it uses Lenovo Identity Provider Services as part of its authentication infrastructure. This allows users to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}