![]() ![]() It doesn’t mean that any of your data has been stolen, or that a website’s servers have been hacked. ![]() A denial-of-service attack does what it says on the tin: it stops you from being able to access a service or website. Scott’s final comment there is important to stress. As is the nature of DDoS attacks, there was no data loss, and no accounts were compromised.” “We continue to mitigate the effects of the attack, but have successfully returned Evernote to service. We appreciate your patience.Ī BBC News report quotes Evernote spokesperson Ronda Scott, who says that the denial-of-service attack began at 14:25 PST on Tuesday and had not yet ended. There may be a hiccup or two for the next 24 hours. The latest update I have been able to find from Evernote appeared on their Twitter account (strangely they haven’t updated their network status page – maybe they’ve had trouble reaching it? ) ) where they claim to have restored access for users, but that the service might continue to experience “a hiccup or two” for the next 24 hours or so. We will provide updates as we learn more. The service is currently unreachable our Operations team is investigating the issue. You may experience problems accessing your Evernote while we resolve this. ![]() We’re actively working to neutralize a denial of service attack. With the service inaccessible, many Evernote users realised just how dependent they were on the cloud-based service, and took to Twitter to express their disgruntlement.Ī quick trip to Evernote’s status page (if you could reach it) revealed that the company was struggling to repel a denial-of-service attack. The first that most of the firm’s 100 million users knew about the problem was when they saw Evernote fail to sync on their desktops or smartphones, preventing them from accessing the notes and web-clippings they had collected over the years. The popular online note-taking service Evernote says it began to suffer a denial-of-service attack on Tuesday which prevented users from accessing their accounts. ![]()
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