While we restored most functionality three hours later, some users continued experiencing issues throughout the weekend across, our desktop client, and our mobile apps.

Your files were always safe, and despite some reports, no hacking or DDOS attack was involved. Unfortunately, a bug installed this upgrade on several active servers, which brought down the entire service. On Friday evening we began a routine server upgrade. The entire service was rendered unavailable by the snafu for around three hours with lingering problems intermittently affecting the service for much longer, a statement on Dropbox's official blog explains.

These claims were reported by sections of the media over the weekend.ĭropbox denied the claim on Sunday, stating that the outage had happened after routine maintenance went awry and apologising for the resulting problems. Pranksters latched onto an outage at Dropbox on Friday to push false rumours of a politically motivated hack.Ī group calling itself 1775Sec claimed that it had taken advantage of a vulnerability to knock out the widely used sync-and-share service.

Is dropbox down