Wuala Encrypted Cloud-Storage Service Shuts Down

New submitter craigtp writes: Wuala, one of the more trusted cloud-storage services that employed encryption for your files, is shutting down. Users of the service will have until 15th November 2015 to move all of their files off the service before all of their data is deleted. From the announcement: "Customers who have an active prepaid annual subscription will be eligible to receive a refund for any unused subscription fees. Your refund will be calculated based on a termination date effective from today’s date, even though the full service will remain active until 30 September 2015 and your data will be available until 15 November 2015. Refunds will be automatically processed and issued to eligible customers in coming weeks. Some exceptions apply. Please visit www.wuala.com for more information."

Comments

Re:WtF?

[FatdogHaiku]

So, no canary?
SpiderOak updates their canary every six months:
https://spideroak.com/canary

Alternative Encrypted Cloud Storage Providers

[jest3r]

I've been using Sync.com for the past year. They've been sort of in beta but releasing features. 5GB free.

SpiderOak is decent but they recently dropped their free plan, so not sure what's going on there.

MEGA was great but Kim.com said last week in Wired that the company is run by criminals

Tresorit is good but expensive. Maybe that's why they've been around so long.
Bitcasa pulled a Wuala last year and closed down their consumer cloud storage after a lawsuit. That's pretty much it. There's OwnCloud which is do it yourself. And BitTorrent Sync which is kind of do it yourself but they've been adjusting pricing so it's bait and switch as well.

Re:My preferred alternative to Wuala

[Dutch Gun]

I hope you have an offsite backup as well. Because what could possibly happen to that "hard drive in the computer on my desk", right? We all know "the cloud" is ridiculously overhyped, but automatic offsite backup is really one of it's killer applications.