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It's not certain that these leaks were FROM Dropbox. These might well be but there is no confirmation of this. This was discussed here a few days ago. http://n
by prayag 14y ago
It's not certain that these leaks were FROM Dropbox. These might well be but there is no confirmation of this. This was discussed here a few days ago.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4255927 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4255927
- pygy_ 14y agoFurther down the thread, someone just started receiving spam in his dropbox@hisdomain address. I assume that the address was exclusively used for Dropbox... He receives the exact same spam at his linkedin@hisdomain, which was previously leaked. A coincidence is always possible, but the timing is suspicious.
- s_henry_paulson 14y agoIf you read the whole thread, there are many people with "dropbox only" e-mail addresses that are being spammed, including some that are claiming that the address does not include the word "dropbox".
- bandy 14y agoAre these people aware of the Rumplestiltskin strategy? dropbox@, linkedin@ both fit that, but what about the other addresses? Unless your e-mail address resembles what's currently considered a Strong password, you're going to get spam.
- prayag 14y agoThe referral link that these guys followed might be a spammy link just to harvest emails. That's only one of the possibilities.