JAKARTA - Microsoft announced on Friday June 16 that blackouts affecting some of the company's services earlier this month were caused by cyberattacks. But the US company stated that there was no evidence of access or customer data compromise.
"In early June 2023, Microsoft identified a surge in traffic against several services that temporarily affected availability," the company said in a post on the blog.
Microsoft stated that it had opened investigations and tracked down DDoS activity by threat actors they called Storm-1359 after identifying the threat.
Microsoft did not immediately respond to a Reuters request regarding whether the company had identified the party responsible for the attack.
The DDoS attack works by directing high internet traffic volume to targeted servers in a relatively simple effort to disable them.
Microsoft 365 software suites, including Teams and Outlook, experienced outages for more than two hours for thousands of users on June 5, and brief events that happened again the next morning. It was Microsoft's fourth outage in a year.
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