We are aware of the issue with the badge emails resending to everyone, we apologise for the inconvenience - learn more here.

Forum Discussion

tanosaur's avatar
tanosaur
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Can a public share link or direct download link be 'hacked' to see other files in folder?

Hi there,   We have sensitive files that we'd like to share individually with clients via a direct download link (https://...dl.dropboxusercontent.com/...). Unfortunately, we're unable to share t...
Security
Share
Shared Links
View
Rich's avatar
Rich
Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
3 years ago
tanosaur wrote:

Does this make our Dropbox any more likely to be 'hacked' by anyone acting maliciously? ... is the direct download link secure so that no client nor any member of public can manipulate the link to view other files within parent folder(s) or even view the directory of files? 

Shared links are secure. They can't be "hacked" to access other content in your account.

About View, download, and export

Need support with viewing, downloading, and exporting files and folders from your Dropbox account? Find help from the Dropbox Community.

Need more support

If you need more help you can view your support options (expected response time for an email or ticket is 24 hours), or contact us on X or Facebook.

For more info on available support options for your Dropbox plan, see this article.

If you found the answer to your question in this Community thread, please 'like' the post to say thanks and to let us know it was useful!