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They're stating they have a partial DB leak. https://twitter.com/1775Sec/status/421842856748126208
Seems like just names and email addresses.
Update: Dropbox app seems working well after adding this like to /etc/hosts
108.160.165.62 dropbox.com
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm thankful there are so many folks out there still doing this sort of thing for "fun" or pure mischieviousness. Imagine how much worse it could be if they tried to be as stealthy as possible, got people downloading a hijacked dropbox service, etc. Edit: which isn't to say this sort of thing is awesome, but it's a damn sight better than the alternative. These sorts of pranksters are like cow pox, and hopefully they…
so, so, true. Every time a serious hack-and-reveal happens, I wonder how many times it's _already_ happened, by someone who kept it quiet for their own continued use.
Either hackers took it down and Dropbox is lying on their status page, or Dropbox did routine maintenance and Anonymous is taking false credit. Unfortunately, I find option #1 to be more likely.
They're saying it's an issue that "arose during routine maintenance", so that doesn't preclude the possibility they had inadvertently exposed a security vulnerability by doing that, leading to it then being exploited.
Apparently the website has been compromised: https://twitter.com/1775Sec/status/421820685766250496 The hackers are also threatening a database leak: https://twitter.com/1775Sec/status/421822727331131392 EDIT: Dropbox's statement is that it's maintainance issues: https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/01/dropbox-status-update/ EDIT2: There is a high probability that the Twitter account is faking the hack, due to the "proof" of…
They say they're doing it in honor of Aaron Swartz[0]. (It's the eve of his death). [0]: https://twitter.com/1775Sec/status/421831664239509504
...which isn't to say that decentralized services are mandatory for the continued health of humanity, but...
In order to achieve real robustness with high availability, clustering is not enough. Distributed computing architecture is the next hot topic we are going to bring up.
Check out the blog page:
http://bingobo.info/blog/bingobo/sql-or-nosql-and-search-eng...
Use IP http://108.160.166.62 Seems DNS problem. Update: Dropbox app seems working well after adding this like to /etc/hosts 108.160.165.62 dropbox.com
I was thinking that they should quickly point the DNS to a different front end server to avoid this type of unavailable. Guess they are doing their job.