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marardao
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12 months ago

Someone gained access to my account and deleted all the files in a shared folder

Hi, I use a shared folder in Dropbox at work and today one of my colleagues told me that I had deleted all the files in it. When I checked, I had no files shared or owned, also the Deleted Files Fold...
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marardao
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12 months ago

Hannah, thanks for your reply. I changed my email password although no unusual things happened with it, I will delete the session as you are suggesting.

Martin 

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Mark
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12 months ago
marardao wrote:

Hannah, thanks for your reply. I changed my email password although no unusual things happened with it, I will delete the session as you are suggesting.

That message is also very commonly associated with viruses and malware. 

Make sure you run a full sweep of your machine to check for such things. 

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    marardao
    New member | Level 1
    11 months ago

    Mark, that was the first thing I did, run the antivirus in full scan mode but nothing was found. Thanks for your reply.

    Martin

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