What is CloudBox?

[Brian M.3]

I received an email from Dropbox no-reply@dropbox.com saying that I have connected a new app called 'CloudBox !' to my dropbox account. I have no idea what cloudbox is. Should I be concerned about this? I am using two step authentication requiring a text to be sent to my phone for logins, so as far as I know, noone should be able to access my data without me knowing, right?

[Mark]

CloudBox isnt an official app so have you tried googling it?

You can also unlink anything connected to your account that shouldnt be at www.dropbox.com/account

[Richard P.]

It could be a fishing email as well...

[Ken C.15]

I just noticed that Cloudbox just 'appeared' linked to my Dropbox also. When I clicked on the info icon it advised me that Cloudbox has full access to all of my dropbox files. I have immediately unlinked it and have certainly not put it there. I can find little when I google it other than an Asian file storage website that I did not subscribe to. I think it's a big security concern for Dropbox. Furthermore, Dropbox didn't email me to say that it had been connected.

[Ken C.15]

I have just discovered :-

CloudBox for DropBox - Windows Store Apps on Appfeds

www.appfeds.com › Apps › Productivity

CloudBox for DropBox is a free client app for Dropbox on Windows 8.1. CloudBox for DropBox lets you upload all your photos, docs, and videos. Access any file ...

[Rich]

So it's a third-party Dropbox client that you (or someone) installed on your computer and linked to your Dropbox account.

[Ken C.15]

This is what it appears to be Rich however I am not conscious of purposely down loading it. I did however go to the Windows apps store and downloaded what I believed was a genuine Dropbox app for my Windows RT based  'Surface' tablet. During the downloading process and while I have been using the app on my surface, the word "CloudBox" has never appeared - until it did as a linked app in my account section of Dropbox. I find it a little strange and worrying as I don't recall downloading any app called CloudBox or CloudBox for Dropbox. That link I posted above to appfeeds doesn't appear to work either.

[Mark]

Rich's link was just a google search. 

I wonder if you've actually always had CloudBox installed and they've just recently changed the name of the software via a recent update to say what it is?

[Richard P.]

Also, the name of the app in the Windows store doesn't have to match the name of the app that the developer has given to Dropbox...

[Ken C.15]

Thanks guys, I hear what you are saying.  If I have inadvertently uploaded CloudBox then I guess more fool me !  In the Windows Store my download is portrayed as a Dropbox App with the Dropbox logo etc. I went through my entire history today on Dropbox. Although there was an entry advising me that I had removed the CloudBox App , there was no entry to say that I had ever linked a Cloudbox App to my account. Anyway, I hope I am not wasting you time. I believe that some malicious event has occurred whether by my ignorance of what has transpired or otherwise an unauthorized or tricky manipulation.

Yes - my mistake Mark, it wasn't a link that I posted but as you noted just a copy of a Google Search so that others in the forum could type in and search the same stuff - in order to see the result - despite the fact that the result is unproductive.