Of course, this also raises interesting points concerning the big question of “cloud” security. At the very least, it seems like a good reason to explore alternatives if you’re doing remote storage. Not surprisingly, the company is apologizing and investigating how this happened.
Just type in a random string of gibberish and you’re in. Apparently, during that period of time, you could log into anyone’s account with any password. So, it was probably the worst time possible for the company to have a “programmer’s error,” leaving all Dropbox accounts completely wide open to anyone for four hours on Sunday. Tue, Jun 21st 2011 03:39am - Mike Masnickĭropbox’s security has been under increased scrutiny lately, after some security researchers claimed that some of its security practices were questionable.
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