News - Dropbox users suffer outage and spam attack

[HEXUS]

Popular cloud storage service has a leakage?

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[matts-uk]

Chuck all your stuff on the Cloud, it's bound to be safe and you won't have to worry about it then.

People have many illusions about IT. Like the one where data centre staff are all well paid, highly conscientious and trustworthy individuals. Some undoubtedly are but it only takes one to rape your data by accident or design...Just ask Nat West.

[Arthran]

So that's why my junk folder has a lot more casino invites in it!

[crossy]

Hmm, I'm missing out then - I'm a Dropbox user (recently - thanks to that 50GB partner deal with Samsung) and I've not received any of these emails. Unless, of course, Mr Google (it's a gmail account I used) has seen fit to recognise these as spam and zap 'em for me.

That said, I've been very careful to not use any 3rd party apps with Dropbox, so if the leak is there then I should be "safe".

[3930k]

I love you Dropbox.

[cameronlite]

I'm very happy I use SkyDrive. Fortunately, Microsoft has yet to be targeted by 'the hackers'. Famous last words...

[Brewster0101]

Another day, another IT glitch affecting people in the masses.

Look forward to the day the events at the end of John Carpenters 'Escape from LA' come to pass

[miniyazz]

No spam emails for me either

[Hicks12]

Just noticed ive had a fair few spam emails over the last few days, all about PPI and crap which im going to blame on DB as i havent signed up for anything and these are new .

Lovely... guess ill finally sort out my passwords haha