The data

Data & Visualizations

Name: Dropbox Watchdog — documented Dropbox issues archive
Creator: Dropbox Watchdog
License: https://dropboxwatchdog.com/data#license

Aggregate views of the archive. Chart data is drawn from the documented issues database — every underlying entry links to its primary sources.

This dataset is the Dropbox Watchdog archive of documented Dropbox issues: 197 entries across 11 categories (security incidents, privacy failures, lawsuits, outages, product shutdowns and pricing changes), backed by 598 cited sources and dated 1986–2026. The full set is available as a CSV download.

Documented issues per year

How entries in the archive distribute by year.

Issues by category

Distribution across the seven major categories.

Security & data-loss incidents over time

Entries tagged Security Incidents & Data Breaches or Reliability & Data Loss.

Issues by severity

How documented issues distribute across the editorial severity scale.

Issues by affected product

Which Dropbox products and surfaces show up most across the archive.

Note: counts reflect documented entries currently in the archive, not the total universe of all incidents. See each issue's sources for primary figures.

Reuse & attribution

The text of this archive and the figures compiled on this site may be quoted with attribution to Dropbox Watchdog (dropboxwatchdog.com) and a link to the source page. Check a page's own date before presenting a figure as current. The underlying sources (news reports, court filings, company statements) belong to their publishers and are not covered by this statement. "Dropbox" and related marks are trademarks of Dropbox, Inc.; Dropbox Watchdog is not affiliated with Dropbox, Inc.