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.”
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.
More:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57474396-93/dropbox-users-get-spammed-via-personal-e-mail-accounts/
