Dropbox: Dropbox Service Disruption
Timeline of updates
- resolved
One of our payment providers suffered a DNS outage (most likely as part of an Internet-wide DDoS issue) causing Dropbox not to be able to process new payments for a short time. This issue was quickly resolved. Access to product features and/or user data was not impacted.
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Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by Dropbox, started 2016-10-21 17:55 UTC, resolved after 42 min, 1 update(s).
- Title
- Dropbox Service Disruption
- Vendor
- Dropbox
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/dropbox/incidents/zvb5d794p4dt
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