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Re:Dropbox investigating possible security breach by moepstar on Thursday July 19, 2012 @01:48AM (#4264631)
Lets recap what i've witnessed in all of this:

My Dropbox account is registered to [email protected] but i've received the spam to [email protected] which i've recently used to invite 2 people to Dropbox.

So, this suggests to me that the breach has happened either on

a) some external party they use for sending out the invites/emails

b) their (separate) emailing servers (or servers particular for that function) have been breached

Either way, there is a leak somewhere...

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Re:Dropbox investigating possible security breach by nikcub on Thursday July 19, 2012 @03:39AM (#4264918)
How do you use a separate email to invite people to dropbox? I am not familiar with that part of it. You seem to have hit an interesting clue
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Re:Dropbox investigating possible security breach by moepstar on Thursday July 19, 2012 @05:31AM (#4265205)
On the iPhone it works by opening Mail.app and there you can select the outgoing email address (i've got 4 configured) and i happened to chose the one which has my clearname as for it to be recognized by the people i've sent the invite to.

(probably forgot to mention that i've used the Dropbox app on the iPhone to send out the invites)

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