Microsoft Acknowledges Hacking Incident Targeting Outlook and OneDrive in June

Microsoft faced significant service disruptions in early June, affecting their flagship office suite, including Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps, as well as their cloud computing platform. A hacktivist group called Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for these disruptions, conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks by flooding the sites with junk traffic.

Initially, Microsoft was hesitant to reveal the cause but has now confirmed that the DDoS attacks from the aforementioned group were indeed responsible. However, the company has provided limited details and did not immediately comment on the number of affected customers or the global impact. Microsoft confirmed that Anonymous Sudan was behind the attacks, as claimed by the group on its Telegram social media channel. Some security researchers suspect the group to have ties to Russia.

Following a request by The Associated Press, Microsoft published an explanation in a blog post on Friday evening. However, the post lacked specific information, stating that the attacks temporarily affected the availability of some services. It also mentioned that the attackers aimed for disruption and publicity, likely utilizing rented cloud infrastructure and virtual private networks to bombard Microsoft servers using botnets comprised of infected computers worldwide.

Microsoft clarified that there was no evidence of customer dat

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