Is WeTransfer safe?

marty1990 · Feb 4, 2013

The hosting/email transfer site thing, how safe is it?

I in-putted a friends email, and was hesitant to use my own personal email so used my universities email address, selected the files I wanted to send from my desktop and it's uploading now.

Is WeTransfer safe, or is anything... erm... compromised?

mobilehaathi · Feb 4, 2013

What did the privacy policy say?

SilentPanda · Feb 4, 2013

It can't hurt to encrypt the data first using software like TrueCrypt. Then even if the file gets viewed by a 3rd party, it won't matter.

Mr. McMac · Feb 4, 2013

SilentPanda said:
It can't hurt to encrypt the data first using software like TrueCrypt. Then even if the file gets viewed by a 3rd party, it won't matter.

I use TrueCrypt along with passwords generated by this website

https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

marty1990 · Feb 6, 2013

It was only images I sent through, stuff that was far too big to be sent through emails. Just a bit concerned about WeTransfer doing something to my Mac?

Demonface · Feb 6, 2013

Never heard of them but I dont think you should have a problem .

andalusia · Feb 7, 2013

Use them very frequently at work, seems like a great service to me.

StarShot · Jan 17, 2017

I wondered about the same questions. (01/17/17) Just found this report, however date in '13.
Norton Rating

Norton Safe Web has analyzed wetransfer.com for safety and security problems.
Summary

Norton Safe Web found no issues with this site.
Computer Threats: 0
Identity Threats: 0
Annoyance factors: 0
Total threats on this site: 0

levis_roger · Feb 7, 2023

I am using MailChimp for sending bulk emails for marketing my business. I don't have any experience with this.

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