Microsoft and Dropbox team up for Office integration

Microsoft said it teamed up with online file-sharing company Dropbox to allow Office software users to manage and share files through Dropbox's website and mobile app.Microsoft said the functionality would be included in the next updates to the Office mobile apps, to be rolled out in the next few weeks, and online accessibility would be available in the first half of 2015.Microsoft already has a file-sharing service called OneDrive, but partnering with Dropbox will allow it to tap more than 200 million users of the Silicon Valley startup's services.Recent reports suggested that DropBox was supposedly hacked. Soon after Edward Snowden pointed out that Dropbox is hostile to privacy, a thread on Reddit revealed a link that teased hundreds of Dropbox usernames and passwords in plain text. It was from an anonymous user and the leaked data was just a tease before the full leak that had around 7 million accounts compromised.Some users had reportedly confirmed the credentials, but the number of users affected was unclear. However, Dropbox had declined a hack and blamed third-party apps for the leaked data.Recently, mobile messaging service Snapchat had also blamed third-party software apps for possible security lapses that may have led to its users’ private photos being at risk of online publication by hackers.With inputs from Reuters