Dropbox Paper is a cloud-based collaborative document platform like Google Docs.

Its primary purpose is for you to work on documents with your colleagues and friends in real-time.

To prevent any work effort from being duplicated, there is no time lag for creating new documents.

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Theres also no delay for changes to be applied as everyone can see them in real-time.

One of the risks of cloud documents is that someone else could get access to your document.

Instead, youre most likely to have someone gain unauthorized access by hacking into a valid users account.

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If this happens to you, obviously, you gotta change your password.

Itd also be a good idea to disconnect all of your mobile devices from the Dropbox Paper service too.

This will disconnect the hackers gadget from looking at or downloading any Paper documents.

At the same time, you go about securing your Dropbox account.

The first step of doing so is to sign in to your account on the Dropbox website.

Once youve signed in, select your profile picture in the top-right corner, then select tweaks.

When the prefs have loaded, switch to the Security tab and scroll down to the pages bottom.

To unlink all of your mobile devices from Paper, punch Unlink in the Paper mobile devices section.

hit Unlink in the Paper mobile devices section of the security controls.

Dropbox paper is a useful document collaboration platform.

Doing so can help prevent a hacker from accessing your collaborative documents while you secure your account.