Dropbox users claim their email addresses have been leaked

Uh, oh. Just a day after Dropbox proudly announced it records one billion uploads per day, users are alleging that their email IDs have been compromised, resulting in them receiving spam messages. A user going by the alias Forrest F posted on the Dropbox forum asking why his email id had been given out. "You guys leaked or gave out my email. Why?" he demanded.Forrest was answered by a moderator who said, “A lot of spammers try hit and miss techniques, and you're likely just a random victim rather than a whole mass leak of tons of DB users' emails.”Forrest refuted the moderator’s claim and told him that he was using an alias—a separate email id created for the sole purpose of signing up for a service—and was starting to get spam on it. Soon enough, a lot of other users on the forum and Twitter also started complaining about the same issue. From the posts, it seems the spam started appearing in email accounts around February 20.

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