Major Microsoft Outage In Early June Confirmed As Cyberattack By Anonymous Sudan
- Microsoft confirmed their flagship office suite experienced serious service disruptions in early June due to distributed denial-of-service attacks.
- A hacktivist group called Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for the attacks that disrupted access to Microsoft's online services like Outlook and OneDrive.
- Microsoft said the attackers likely used rented cloud infrastructure and virtual private networks to overwhelm their servers with botnet traffic from around the world.
- While Microsoft claimed no customer data was compromised, experts warn such attacks pose risks to global commerce and connectivity.
- Microsoft provided few details about the impact or number of customers affected, leaving many questions unanswered about the scale of disruption.