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Dropbox Business

1 documented issue affecting Dropbox Business, most severe first.

July 20183 sources

Medium~16,000 scientists (reporting referenced data tied to ~400,000 users)

Sharing 16,000 scientists' folder data with researchers — without telling them

Dropbox gave Northwestern University researchers project-folder metadata covering some 16,000 scientists to study collaboration patterns. Users were never told their activity would be used for research, and academics warned the 'anonymized' data could re-identify individuals.

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