David P. was the first Dropbox user to post on the company's Web site forum titled "Email-Address leaked from Dropbox" yesterday. He wrote that he received spam from an email address he uses only for Dropbox.
"So I guess you have a security problem with your user account data," he wrote. "And this sucks a lot."
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As of this writing, there are now 106 posts in the forum of people complaining of receiving e-mail spam from online casinos and gambling sites via the online file storage service. The majority of the users are European, coming from Germany, Holland, and the U.K.
The junk mail these users are getting could be associated with a Dropbox e-mail leak, but it could also be the result of a spambot randomly trying out addresses at several mail servers to see if it gets a hit or a Dropbox integrated third-party app that leaked the addresses.
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