"Microsoft" reveals the reason for the failure of some of its services... and identifies the location of the threat

 Microsoft said that the outages that affected certain services of the company during some days earlier this month were the result of electronic attacks, but made it clear that there was no indication that customer data had been hacked or accessed.

"Starting in early June 2023, Microsoft detected an increase in network usage against some services, which temporarily affected data availability," the company added in a blog post.

And Microsoft indicated that it had opened an investigation and began tracking the attacks that caused the denial of service by the threat party, which it refers to as "Storm-1359", after it identified the location of the threat.

Microsoft has not yet responded to a Reuters request for comment on whether the company has identified who or who was responsible for the attack. DoS attacks work by crowding the server with so much traffic that it stops services.

The Microsoft 365 suite of programs, including Teams and Outlook, remained down for more than two hours for thousands of users on June 5, and repeated briefly the next morning. It is worth noting that this was the fourth outage of its kind for Microsoft in a year.