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I'm still getting almost daily phishing/malware from the Mt Gox leak in 2011, and I never even signed up for anything more than to see what it's interface was l
by nwh 13y ago
I'm still getting almost daily phishing/malware from the Mt Gox leak in 2011, and I never even signed up for anything more than to see what it's interface was like. Can't imagine how that will be with people having copies of passports (supposedly).
- claudius 13y agoMy spam folder is also full of, well, spam addressed to the email address I supplied to Dropbox (and only Dropbox) when I first signed up there sometime in 2011 and later leaked (I think 2012). Sometimes I wish data privacy laws were stricter, but it appears that not even financial services laws are sufficiently strict, as just demonstrated here.
- nwh 13y agoPretty much what mine is too, a pile of spam from various compromises services I should have done better than to trust. Mt Gox, Dropbox, Bitstamp (yeah, they never made a big mention of that one) and a variety of other small services.
- Cthulhu_ 13y ago> Sometimes I wish data privacy laws were stricter I think the laws and awareness are good enough atm, but no laws and probably no amount of knowledge or auditing will stop a data leak from indadvertedly occurring.
- claudius 13y agoIt happens relatively rarely that a large multinational food company poisons half its customers (or so I like to think), hence I would assume that laws and proper auditing can stop such problems. In summary I have spent at least five to ten minutes (and likely more) on spam brought to me by Dropbox without any compensation. How about a fixed payout of, say, 100€ per leaked detail (username, password, email etc.), payable immediately to each customer? At least companies with bad security would be out-of-business soon.
- wpietri 13y agoPlease contact Dropbox support about this. Mine vendor-tagged address leaked on or before 3 Feb 2014, as that's when I got the first spam. I'm currently in the middle of persuading them that they have a security issue, and more people expressing the problem would be helpful.
- claudius 13y agoThe spam to mine goes back to at least March 2013 (yeah, I like to keep spam, makes it easier to train filters later one…), possibly earlier, so I don’t think that it is a recent leak. I have stopped using Dropbox shortly after receiving the first such spam email, so I cannot comment on more recent leaks.
- wpietri 13y agoFor those wondering, I finally got an explanation from them. It turns out they had a leak in 2012: https://blog.dropbox.com/2012/07/security-update-new-features/ https://blog.dropbox.com/2012/07/security-update-new-feature... It's surprising to me that my email address took 2 years to be used, but who knows.