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Texas-based cloud computing provider Rackspace has confirmed today that a ransomware attack is behind its ongoing Hosted Exchange outage. "Although Rackspace Technology is in the early stages of assessing this incident, the incident has caused and may continue to cause an interruption in its Hosted Exchange business and may result in a loss of revenue for the Hosted Exchange business, which generates approximately $30 million of annual revenue in the Apps & Cross Platform segment," the company said.
Cloud computing company Rackspace has suffered a security breach that has resulted in a still ongoing outage of their Hosted Exchange environment.The connectivity issues for Rackspace Hosted Exchange customers - mostly small to medium size businesses - started on Friday, with users experiencing errors when accessing the Outlook Web App and syncing their email clients.
Rackspace has not offered any explanation of the "Security incident" that has taken out its hosted Exchange environment and led the company to predict multiple days of downtime before restoration. The Register has conversed with customers who profess to having little technical expertise - which is fair enough given Rackspace promotes its hosted Exchange service as suitable for "Any business size or need" and that an "Award-winning team of support experts is available to solve your technical problems 24x7x365."
American cloud computing services provider Rackspace says an ongoing outage affecting its hosted Microsoft Exchange environments and likely thousands of customers was caused by a security incident. "We are investigating an issue that is affecting our Hosted Exchange environments. More details will be posted as they become available," Rackspace said on Friday night, at 02:49 AM EST, when it acknowledged the outage.
American cloud computing services provider Rackspace is investigating a 12-hour-long and still active outage leading to connectivity issues and affecting hosted Microsoft Exchange environments they manage for their customers. "We are investigating an issue that is affecting our Hosted Exchange environments. More details will be posted as they become available," Rackspace said on Friday night, at 02:49 AM EST, when it acknowledged the outage.
Okta, a leading provider of authentication services, has shared a workaround for ongoing issues preventing customers from logging into their accounts using Microsoft Office 365 Single Sign-On. Based on a new incident added to the company's status page, the outage affects users across the United States, EMEA, and Japan. "We have deployed a fix across all cells. After deploying the fix, we are still seeing a number of issues. We are still actively investigating these issues to isolate a fix. We are also actively monitoring the systems," the company said in a recent update.
Royal Mail, UK's leading mail delivery service, has been experiencing ongoing outages with its online tracking services down for more than 24 hours at the time of writing. With Royal Mail's Track & Trace website offline, British residents are unable to track their parcels, letters and mail deliveries.
Maple Leaf Foods confirmed on Sunday that it experienced a cybersecurity incident causing a system outage and disruption of operations.Maple Leaf Foods is Canada's largest prepared meats and poultry food producer, operating 21 manufacturing facilities, employing 14,000 people, and contracting over 700 barns.
Instagram users are currently experiencing issues signing into their accounts, some being notified that their accounts have been suspended. The social media platform says it's currently investigating these reports and confirmed that some users might have issues logging into their accounts.
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