Submitted by HowAboutThisNameNow t3_10ky548 in worldnews
Standard-Bother8540 t1_j5ugxkc wrote
Reply to comment by LifeLongMarine1974 in German cybersecurity officials looking into 'culprits' behind Microsoft outage by HowAboutThisNameNow
It wasn't hacked, German officials retracted their statement because Microsoft's systems were taken down by a bad configuration change. An IT guy fucked up basically lol
The DDoS attacks they are actually investigating against other services are also not "hacked" despite how the media phrases it - a DDoS attack is not hacking anything, it's more like creating a traffic jam and a really long lineup. It's basically just overloading the server until nobody can use it, not accessing any data or modifying anything or breaking any security.
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