Speaking on Dropbox (or nearly so), a dangerous incident was reported by the company responsible for the service of backup files. On Monday, a system failure caused the Dropbox users' documents stay available on the Web, for anyone to download.
The Dropbox explains that during the afternoon of Monday, a new code was implemented at around 17:45. The bug caused the new code has caused a system crash Authentication Dropbox. For four hours yesterday afternoon, users' files were accessible to anyone. Simply enter the login, as Dropbox forgot to ask for the password.
The problem was almost like
According to the company, the problem affected only 1% of its users. It may seem a small percentage, but a very conservative projection (by me) says that the bug potentially affected 250,000 users. This considering the numbers of Dropbox for the end of 2010, but it is quite likely to have been more.
All accounts accessed during the crash had closed its sessions, the company says, as a way to ensure the safety of users. They also promised to send logs to the recent activities, so that users can verify that your files were tampered with while the authentication system was defective. If this is your case, the orientation that gives Dropbox is to contact the support@dropbox.com.
It should be remembered that the same Dropbox was charged in May this year of not being transparent about the protection it offers to the files stored on their servers.
