Spammers Target Dropbox Users
Summary: In July 2012, Dropbox users in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom reported receiving casino spam at email addresses created specifically for use with Dropbox, and around 3 p.m. ET the service went down, blocking logins and file access. A Dropbox administrator said the company had found no intrusions into its internal systems and no unauthorized activity in Dropbox accounts, and that it was investigating whether the addresses came from Dropbox.
Why it matters: Addresses that existed only inside Dropbox accounts were enough to reach those users, and the incident landed in the same week that Yahoo acknowledged more than 400,000 stolen credentials and Formspring reset all passwords after roughly 420,000 password hashes were posted online.
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