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Microsoft Confirms New Outage Was Triggered By Cyberattack

A Microsoft Azure outage on July 30 was triggered by a distributed denial of service cyberattack. Here's what you need to know.

Microsoft says the “initial trigger event” was a DDoS attack, which sees adversaries flood services with traffic in order to bring them to a standstill. ForbesiOS 17.6-Update Now Warning Issued To All iPhone UsersBy Kate O'Flaherty The CrowdStrike incident had already—and unfairly—created bad optics for Microsoft, so the timing of this new outage is unlucky. Microsoft knows this and has communicated clearly throughout the outage, saying it will publish a Preliminary Post Incident Review within approximately 72 hours, to share more details on what happened and how it responded.

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