By Laura Barnes
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This week we take a look at Dropbox’s syncing issue, a Facebook scam targeting Emma Watson fans, and the largest ever study of European data privacy breaches.
Dropbox has confirmed that a bug in some older versions of its desktop apps can delete files from the cloud belonging to those users who turned on Selective Sync, which limits cloud syncing to certain folders.
Dropbox says it is restoring files where it can as well as releasing fixed versions of its apps and putting extra safeguards in place to prevent this kind of error happening again.
Affected users are receiving emails informing them of the issue and offering them a year’s worth of Dropbox Pro.
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Security roundup: Dropbox bug can wipe files from the cloud
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Ooooos I believe my wife uses Drop box have to ask her if she got a email yet.
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