Thanks to a bug introduced by a code update, the entire world had access to Dropbox accounts for just under four hours. This issue was announced by Dropbox CTO Arash Ferdowsi on Monday revealed in his blog that a code update implemented on Sunday at 1:54pm PST introduced a bug that affected the service's authentication mechanism. The bug was discovered at 5:41pm PST and fixed precisely at 5:46pm. This meant that for nearly four hours, accounts were left wide open for anyone to access without a password.
According to Ferdowski, only 1-percent of its user base actually accessed their accounts during that sensitive window.
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