Why was my email leaked?
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Why was my email leaked?
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Re: Why was my email leaked?
#2I was skeptical at first, but the rest of the evidence makes it look like it's not a coincidence.
Re: Why was my email leaked?
#3I also give out a separate email address to every service I sign up for. So far geico, mint, and dyndns have lost or sold my email address. I haven't gotten any spam on my dropbox account, but I've only had an account since 2012-10-02.
I don't run any spam filtering, at all, and my email box is the catchall for my domain. These aren't just lucky guesses.
Re: Why was my email leaked?
#4The way the moderators handled this was pretty damn bad. Two different users tell the moderator they use UNIQUE e-mail addresses for dropbox only, and they received spam roughly at the same time and yet the moderator answers by assuming the users are idiots.
Re: Why was my email leaked?
#5I also give out a separate email address to every service I sign up for. So far geico, mint, and dyndns have lost or sold my email address. I haven't gotten any spam on my dropbox account, but I've only had an account since 2012-10-02. I don't run any spam filtering, at all, and my email box is the catchall for my domain. These aren't just lucky guesses.
I'm surprised to see mint in that list. Have you contacted them in any way about this?
Re: Why was my email leaked?
#6I also give out a separate email address to every service I sign up for. So far geico, mint, and dyndns have lost or sold my email address. I haven't gotten any spam on my dropbox account, but I've only had an account since 2012-10-02. I don't run any spam filtering, at all, and my email box is the catchall for my domain. These aren't just lucky guesses.
"These aren't just lucky guesses."
How did you rule that out?
Re: Why was my email leaked?
#7The way the moderators handled this was pretty damn bad. Two different users tell the moderator they use UNIQUE e-mail addresses for dropbox only, and they received spam roughly at the same time and yet the moderator answers by assuming the users are idiots.
Yup, especially Chris' behaviour is a no go. I don't know how the mods are affiliated with dropbox but if they are employees I wouldn't let them have any customer contact at all.
Re: Why was my email leaked?
#8They aren't letting me post to the forums, but I can also report receiving spam, but only on an address I formerly used with this account, not my latest address.
Re: Why was my email leaked?
#9I also give out a separate email address to every service I sign up for. So far geico, mint, and dyndns have lost or sold my email address. I haven't gotten any spam on my dropbox account, but I've only had an account since 2012-10-02. I don't run any spam filtering, at all, and my email box is the catchall for my domain. These aren't just lucky guesses.
I'm surprised to see mint in that list. Have you contacted them in any way about this?
Why are you surprised? It's a free service. I assume that my data is for sale for every free service I use.
Also, the parent is Intuit which, IMO, is not exactly tops when it comes to data security and privacy.
Re: Why was my email leaked?
#10I also give out a separate email address to every service I sign up for. So far geico, mint, and dyndns have lost or sold my email address. I haven't gotten any spam on my dropbox account, but I've only had an account since 2012-10-02. I don't run any spam filtering, at all, and my email box is the catchall for my domain. These aren't just lucky guesses.
" These aren't just lucky guesses. " How did you rule that out?
From the linked page:
"I just got spammed this morning via my dropbox@... custom email address. cc'd on the spam were two other email addresses which belong to the two dropbox accounts that I share folders with. There is no way this was a random spammer guessing addresses as some of the mods are suggesting."
Seems highly unlikely that the situation this person described would result from anything other than dropbox being compromised in some way.