Online file-storage site Dropbox suffered a period of downtime on Friday evening, as both its website and mobile applications were not accessible to users. The company acknowledged the outage in a blog post, attributing the problem to an issue caused during “routine internal maintenance” and not as a result of any “external factors.”
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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