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There are several reasons you could be getting spam that aren't related to Dropbox. Without knowing your address, it's possible that the spammers randomly guess
by simonster 14y ago
There are several reasons you could be getting spam that aren't related to Dropbox. Without knowing your address, it's possible that the spammers randomly guessed it. Another possibility is that a friend's email or Facebook account was compromised, exposing your email address. (I get a disturbing amount of spam this way.) The cases described in the Dropbox forum are more convincing because the addresses were used only for Dropbox and don't seem to be guessable.
- lucb1e 14y agoNo, that is not possible. I use thousands of e-mail addresses, and only the ones that have dropbox accounts (I confirmed by sending myself password resets) are receiving spam.
- badgar 14y agoIt fascinates me how desperate folks are to excuse Dropbox. I wonder why - is it because they're a startup?
- pixl97 14y agoNo, not because they are a start up, but because it's really damn easy for $random_internet_user to get compromised and not realize it. Did $random-user share his dropbox email with someone else who was compromised? Did $random-user save his dropbox email on a large service (like Yahoo), which he had compromised? Did $random-user not update Java, Adobe, Windows, etc and have his machine compromised? Or in some other way leak information? I'm not in any way excusing Db, but uncritically blaming them without other possible scenarios seems just as asinine.
- badgar 14y ago> I'm not in any way excusing Db, but uncritically blaming them without other possible scenarios seems just as asinine. Except you're wrong here - they've admitted they leaked all these unique email addresses, and it isn't actually some cataclysmic combination of coincidences that all these users were compromised. As would otherwise need to be the case.