Microsoft Reports Cyberattacks Caused Early June Service Disruptions
On Friday, Microsoft announced that cyberattacks were responsible for the recent outages of some of its services earlier this month. However, the company stated that it did not find any indication of customer data being breached or compromised.
“Starting in early June 2023, Microsoft experienced traffic spikes for some services that temporarily affected availability,” the company said in a blog post.
Microsoft announced that it has begun investigating and monitoring the DDoS activity of a threat actor known as Storm-1359 after identifying the threat.
Microsoft did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for information on whether the company had identified the party responsible for the attack.
DDoS attacks redirect large amounts of Internet traffic to target servers in a relatively modest way in order to take them offline.
Microsoft’s 365 software suite, including Teams and Outlook, was down for more than two hours for more than a thousand users on June 5, and it happened again briefly the next morning. It was the fourth such outage for Microsoft within a year.
