If the password reset link isn’t working, Carbonite said you can use the Forgot Password link. The password reset runs in your browser, so don’t download and run any executables, as they may be malicious. Check to make sure the URL is and that it has a green lock. The Reset Your Password button brings you to a Carbonite page.Carbonite sent from Don’t trust an email from anything else. The company says that this is how you can tell the password reset email is legitimate:
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It sent out an email with instructions on how to do that.Ĭarbonite also said that this won’t affect existing or scheduled backups: the files “are still being safely backed up.”Ĭarbonite doesn’t currently offer two-factor authentication (2FA), but it says that plans are in the works to roll it out. The company’s requiring all users to reset their login information. It looks like for some of the accounts, other personal information also seems to have been exposed. Add up just that list of breaches above, and over the past 2 months we’ve seen over 1 billion logins spilled, many of them up for sale on the dark web.Ĭarbonite says that the hackers are using usernames and passwords. The list of stolen credentials available online grows every day. Humongous datasets of stolen logins have been popping up like dandelions after a spring rain.Ĭould be that the Carbonite logins came from people who reused the same email addresses/passwords on LinkedIn.
What other companies? Carbonite didn’t hazard a guess, and really, why should it? They could have come from anywhere. Rather than pilfering logins from Carbonite itself, the attackers appear to be trying to get into Carbonite accounts with email addresses and passwords stolen by breaching other companies. On Tuesday, the company said in a post that as far as it can tell, its own systems haven’t been breached. Online backup service Carbonite is forcing users to pick new passwords in the wake of discovering that it was under a large-scale account takeover attack.
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