Microsoft says early June service outages were cyberattacks By Reuters

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(Reuters) – Microsoft (NASDAQ:) mentioned on Friday that the outages that affected sure providers of the corporate via a number of the earlier days of this month had been the results of cyberattacks, however mentioned it noticed no proof of any buyer information being accessed or compromised.

“Starting in early June 2023, Microsoft recognized surges in visitors towards some providers that quickly impacted availability'” the corporate mentioned in a weblog put up.

Microsoft mentioned it opened an investigation and started monitoring the DDoS exercise by the menace actor it refers to as Storm-1359 after it recognized the menace.

Microsoft didn’t instantly reply to a request by Reuters as as to whether the corporate had recognized the get together chargeable for the assault.

DDoS assaults work by directing excessive volumes of web visitors in direction of focused servers in a comparatively unsophisticated bid to knock them offline.

Microsoft’s 365 software program suite, together with Groups and Outlook, had been down for greater than two hours for over 1000’s of customers on June 5 and a short recurrence the next morning. That was the fourth such outage for Microsoft in a yr.