In the early hours of 25th January the Runbox network was subject to a Distributed Denial of Service attack. This sort of attack uses multiple computers around the world to flood our servers with requests and this makes it difficult, if not impossible, for legitimate access by our customers.
Response and consequences
We were quick to respond to this problem, but it can take some time to identify the multiple sources of the attack and then block the traffic to our servers. As a result of the attack many of you would not be able to access our services during the time it was taking place.
The attack was carried out by a group who had previously failed to get access to some of our customers accounts that do not belong to them. They had threatened to carry out the attack if we did not comply with their wishes.
No data was compromised
We would like to assure our customers that no customer data was compromised before, during or after the attack, and that we would never give way to such threats. If you have any concerns about this incident, please open a support ticket at https://support.runbox.com
The best thing is that you are not being threatened by these attackers.And that no files nor data nor account was compromised.At least, everyone will be comforted.