However, when you run a business or just for personal needs, you subscribe to a platform like #linkedin, #facebook, #yahoo, #bank services, #CRM, document #hosting or others. After years those platforms are succeeding or not. Most of them will survive few years, the time of a trend only.
This is what is threatening your #security. How ?
When a company has to cut on expenses, the platform's security is not following updates, more and more security #breaches are letting criminals and robots accessing the system, even without alarming the administrators.
Once the criminals is in, he gets access to some data, like emails, maybe passwords and/or other user personal information. They can be used for #socialengineering as sending you your password threatening you to disclose your personal information. They can also use your email to spam you.
This is what happened with #dropbox. We used unique password and unique email address for every single platform we connect to. Example of email in our case; dropbox@#domain#.com. We just use catch-all to receive every single unique email created. And our Google email account is filtering quite well the spams ;-).
Means, we don't share or don't need to share and never share this email to anyone.
So how do we receive emails from spammers, hackers, scammers... from that email address then ?
Only Dropbox server is storing it.
What could happen then ?
We don't see a lot of options here; either Dropbox is sharing / selling their customer's email, either they got hacked. What do you think ?
One thing is sure; it would not be the first platform to leak their data, as we received the same kind of data from many other identified platforms.
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