'June disruptions were cyberattacks'

By Associated Press

Jun 19, 2023 12:18 am

BOSTON: In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft's flagship office suite — including the Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps — and cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group claimed responsibility, saying it flooded the sites with junk traffic in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Initially reluctant to name the cause, Microsoft has now disclosed that DDoS attacks by the murky upstart were indeed to blame.

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