The hack was merely a Denial of Service attack by 1775 Sec, and the leaked information was a very old database. The compromise was done using a massive DDoS attack, 1775 Sec claimed in another tweet.ĭropbox are yet to react to the database leak, the website is still down at the time of writing this post. The hackers were applauded by the more famous, Anonymous group’s Korean account, for the hack and the leak.įollow ←They hacked - Anonymous January 11, We support u guys. Rest in Peace Aaron Swartz! We made the Internet Reporters look like fools for you! - The 1775 Sec January 11, 2014 The reason for the hack is to honor the late American hacker/computer programmer Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide last year on this very day. While most of the Internet media seem to believe that the website is under maintenance, 1775 Sec threatened to leak a database of it’s users, and they actually did, though we are not going to link to it for security reasons. We are working to fix this as soon as possible. This was caused during routine internal maintenance, and was not caused by external factors. We are aware that the Dropbox site is currently down. 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. We are aware of an issue currently affecting the Dropbox site. The hackers were infuriated when Dropbox pretended that they are undergoing “a routine internal maintenance!”. The hackers, calling themselves “ 1775 Sec”, have claimed that they have compromised the Dropbox website.īREAKING NEWS: We have just compromised the Website #hacked #compromised - The 1775 Sec January 11, 2014 Visiting will now redirect you to, from where the above image was taken.

Popular cloud storage service, Dropbox has gone offline for a while, and while the company claims it is under maintenance, a hacker group has claimed credit for taking it down.

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