Dropbox hit by outage on Friday, denies that it was hacked

January 11, 2014

Dropbox service returned Friday night, after an outage of several hours that the file-sharing service blamed on an issue that came up during regular maintenance. A social network post allegedly from a hacker group had claimed responsibility for the outage, but Dropbox dismissed claims that user info had been leaked as hoax. Users trying access the Dropbox website from around 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. PT were redirected to a status page acknowledging the outage. “We are aware of an issue currently affecting the Dropbox site,” a message posted on the site said. “We have identified the cause, which was the result of an issue that arose during routine internal maintenance, and are working to fix this as soon as possible.” The main page of the Dropbox site returned by 8 p.m. PT, but attempts to log in produced an error message. Just after 8:30 p.m. PT, Dropbox posted via Twitter that service had been restored. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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