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Dropbox: Fewer Than 100 Accounts Affected
- mrkurt 15y agoI think the bigger takeaway from that article (for me) is that it was a really nice, honest letter to affected customers. I know they got somewhat of a black eye from their responses before, but this one was really good.
- mtogo 15y agoAlready posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2693901 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2693901
- bretthopper 15y agoWhen a duplicate post like this comes up, I usually flag it. Does anyone else do this? It really fragments discussion having duplicate posts on the main page since people usually just comment on the first one they see. I also noticed that the only difference in the URLs between the two was a trailing slash. Shouldn't that be included in the dupe detection? Probably the most frequent and easiest to catch cause.
- immad 15y agoYeah. I thought HN would catch trailing slashes.
- Kudos 15y agoI don't think I'll be the only one closing my Dropbox account now. It's not just this event, but the recent series of privacy issues.
- fmavituna 15y agoThat's the way to apologize, very impressive way to handle the situation in individual level. Although the bigger issue is, how was this ever possible? Do they push code to production without any normal or security code reviews? Without pen-testing? And if that's the case what does it stop this problem to happen again?