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Dropbox says no evidence of hack in investigation of spam
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:54:15 -0500 (CDT)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229420/Dropbox_says_no_evidence_of_hack_in_investigation_of_spam By Cameron Scott IDG News Service July 20, 2012 Dropbox's ongoing investigation into a possible security breach has not produced any evidence that its systems have been infiltrated, according to an update Friday to the company's user forum. "As of today, we've found no intrusions into our internal systems and no unauthorized activity in Dropbox accounts," said the update, posted early Friday morning. The cloud storage company brought in a team of outside investigators to look into complaints that users were receiving spam at email addresses they used solely for Dropbox. Several users reported receiving the same spam messages, spurring fears that the spammers had obtained their email addresses through Dropbox. Because users sometimes store personal and professional data with cloud storage services like Dropbox, security is a serious issue. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Supporters: Risk Based Security (http://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/) Risk Based Security equips organizations with security intelligence, risk management services and on-demand security solutions to establish customized risk-based programs to address information security and compliance challenges. Tenable Network Security (http://www.tenable.com/) Tenable Network Security provides a suite of solutions which unify real-time vulnerability, event and compliance monitoring into a single, role-based, interface for administrators, auditors and risk managers to evaluate, communicate and report needed information for effective decision making and systems management.
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