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I haven't seen any proof from the hackers. The emails in the pastbin from @1775Sec are old. They are in this pastebin from a month ago: http://pastebin.com/64PAAV1c

I find it humorous how you are more likely to trust the word of some blackhat organization over that of an established company with a reputation that it needs to uphold. Lying would hurt it eventually. Also, the hackers admitted that they only DDOS'ed the website and made up the bit about the database leak. https://twitter.com/1775Sec/status/421852503848656898

>Dropbox is lying on their status page

They're saying it's an issue that "arose during routine maintenance", so that doesn't preclude the possibility they had inadvertently exposed a security vulnerability by doing that, leading to it then being exploited.

Probably. But due to how huge they are now, I don't blame them for trying to pass this off as a routine maint thing. Shit's either going to blow up or will be OK.