follow-up: Cloud Site Dropbox Drops the Ball (lawsuit)

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2011/06/cloud-site-dropbox-drops-the-ball.html

Cloud Site Dropbox Drops the Ball
Popular data storage site accidentally unlocked users' accounts, suit charges
06/27/2011 | James R. Hood

The Dropbox data hosting service introduced a bug that unlocked its 25 
million users' accounts and data for everyone to see, a class action 
lawsuit claims in California's Northern District.

In the suit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Dropbox 
customer Cristina Wong of Los Angeles said she did not learn about the 
incident until she read a news story about it several days later.

Dropbox, which claims to have more than 25 million subscribers, is a 
popular "cloud" storage service that lets Internet users easily keep all 
of their data online so that it is accessible to all of their devices.

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