Favourite cloudThe Dropbox data storage service has been out of service since yesterday evening and it is not possible to log in to the dropbox.com service directly via the web interface. The service repeatedly works for several dozen minutes and then becomes unavailable again. ProTwo hacker groups took advantage of the problems and issued a statement claiming that they were responsible for Dropbox's problems. Interestingly, both groups issued their statements completely independently, making it clear that miniAt least one of them is simply lying and just wants to be seen.
A rumor immediately spread on the Internet that user data had been misused and hackers had gained access to the login database and also to the data that users have stored on Dropbox. However, Dropbox itself immediately commented on this, stating the following. “We are aware of the issues currently affecting the Dropbox website. We have identified the cause, which is a result of an issue that occurred during routine internal maintenance and are working to fix it as quickly as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.” Dropbox further added that the information about the leak is complete nonsense and the website was not attacked by hackers.
This was again commented on by one of the hacker groups, who stated that the attack was carried out using a simple DDoS attack, which simply overwhelmed Dropbox's data centers with an incredible number of queries and the servers collapsed. ProHowever, the problem arose when the attackers stated that the hack occurred in honor of the one-year anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death and that they actually had a user database and were ready to publish it if Dropbox did not fix the problem that made the hack possible as soon as possible.
However, Dropbox still claims that no hack has occurred on their servers. nestal and everything was caused by a routine check of internal systems. So it's a question of who to trust, it's obvious that any hacker group would want to profit from the fall of a service with such a name as Dropbox, but the truth is, we're notancWe will only find out when the hackers actually publish the user database, but that has not happened yet. nestHello. However, the claim that hackers used a DDos attack and at the same time have a database is quite strange, because a DDos attack only overloads the server, not penetrates the server itself.
Hackers @1775Sec DDoS attacks http://t.co/SDzXqqhKYf And then goes on to Troll the Media & members of Anonymous, in the name of Aaron Swartz
— AnonOpsKorea (@AnonKorEdwin) January 11, 2014
That was some serious Lulz. We DDoS attack DropBox! After it's down we say database compromise! And the media is all over it! #Lulz #fail
— The 1775 Sec (@1775Sec) January 11, 2014
mmmmm… well I'm screwed if it's true