Sunday, January 12, 2014

Dropbox Says Site Down After Maintenance Error, Not From Hackers - NYTimes.com

In other security insecurity news, see Neiman Marcus Investigates Breach Involving Credit Card Data (NYT)
"But the company said that the site went down because of a problem that arose during regular maintenance, not because it was compromised by hackers. The site was back up before midnight on Friday.
“Today’s outage was caused during internal maintenance, and was not caused by external factor,” a company spokeswoman said in an email. “We apologize for any inconvenience.”
Still, hackers tried to claim credit, saying the error was the result of a security vulnerability in the website."
Dropbox Says Site Down After Maintenance Error, Not From Hackers - NYTimes.com

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