They're stating they have a partial DB leak. https://twitter.com/1775Sec/status/421842856748126208
I call fake.
See http://pastebin.com/64PAAV1c
Same data, one month old.
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Seems like just names and email addresses.
Yeah, this is terribly easy to fake. Also, if you look closely, they repeat a lot of the same e-mail addresses with different "real" names attached to them. e.g., flyman@gmail.com and kidrock@msn.com (which appears right next to each other...)
I noticed it too. But it does not quite make sense, because nobody likes to sign up twice using different email address immediately, even if they don't remember their password. This reminds me that the exposed the data might be fake too.
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#44Apparently 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
Haha, seriously? Did you really have to use a "citation" for a twitter link in your 10 word comment?[0] Pretentious pseudo-scientific nonsense. Only on hacker news.
[0]: No.
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#45Either 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.
I haven't seen any proof from the hackers. The emails in the pastbin from @1775Sec are old. They are in this pastebin from a month ago: http://pastebin.com/64PAAV1c
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#46For everyone linking to a certain Twitter account saying that Dropbox is compromised:
The Twitter account is lying. This is almost always the case (especially when there is some sort of Anonymous affiliation). Anyone can make a Pastebin of fake emails.
(If Dropbox actually gets hacked, it's more likely to be by a state-sponsored organization, and definitely not by someone who is going to brag about it on Twitter)
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#47It's just a DDoS Attack according to them
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How does this honor Aaron? Aaron wouldn't have done something like this.
Honestly, I'm not sure, and I definitely don't think it's some Aaron would have done.
Well, for one, Dropbox is claiming that it was not a hack at all.
See: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/10/dropbox-offline-hacker-grou...
and also see dropbox's blog post, explicitly stating that it "was caused during routine internal maintenance, and was not caused by external factors"