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There was an entire thread a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5300492 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5300492 I contacted Dropbox at th
by guiambros 14y ago
There was an entire thread a few weeks ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5300492 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5300492
I contacted Dropbox at the time, and they confirmed it _seems_ to be related to the leak of email addresses July last year. Of course this doesn't make things less serious; they still have a leak, and our info is likely out in the wild. But at least they did notify affected users last year.
> Sean, Mar 13 02:19 pm (PDT):
> Hi,
> Sorry for not responding earlier, and thanks for the report. We're still
> looking into the spam, and so far it looks like it's tied to the leak of
> email addresses from Dropbox back in July.
>
> You can read more about it here:
> https://blog.dropbox.com/2012/07/security-update-new-features/
> If you have any questions, please let me know.
>
> Best,
> Sean