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FinalSite announced today the findings of a six-day investigation into last week's ransomware attack, stating it found no evidence schools' data accessed or stolen by hackers. After a six-day investigation, FinalSite states that they have determined what ransomware gang performed the attack and how they gained access to their network but would not be disclosing their names due to ongoing investigations.
Major services across the internet are currently facing ongoing networking outages. "We are experiencing issues with file uploads, message editing, and other services. We're currently investigating the issue and will provide a status update once we have more information," Slack has confirmed, with its status page continuing to show further disruptions.
Amazon AWS is experiencing an outage that has impacted numerous online services, including Twitch, Zoom, PSN, Xbox Live, Doordash, Quickbooks Online, and Hulu. AWS engineers are working on addressing the root cause behind this outage and said they have already taken steps to restore connectivity.
Kronos, the workforce management platform, has been hit with a ransomware attack that it says will leave its cloud-based services unavailable for several weeks - and it's suggesting that customers seek other ways to get payroll and other HR tasks accomplished.Kronos offers a range of solutions for employee scheduling, compensation management, payroll and hours worked, benefits administration, time off management, talent acquisition, onboarding and more.
Amazon has published a post-event summary to shed some light on the root cause behind this week's massive AWS outage that took down a long list of high-profile sites and online services, including Ring, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Roku. "At 7:30 AM PST, an automated activity to scale capacity of one of the AWS services hosted in the main AWS network triggered an unexpected behavior from a large number of clients inside the internal network," Amazon explained in a summary of this incident.
Amazon AWS in the US-EAST-1 Region is suffering an outage that affected numerous online services, including Ring, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Roku. The ongoing outage started at approximately 12 PM EST and is caused by problematic network equipment affecting the US-EAST-1 AWS region, which feeds a good portion of the connectivity for people in the northeastern part of the United States.
A Microsoft 365 outage prevents access to files, such as Excel documents, stored on the SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Office, and Microsoft Teams cloud storage services. The outage started at approximately 11:40 AM EST, with admins and users reporting on social media that they could not open files stored on OneDrive or SharePoint.
The second-largest telecommunications provider in South Korea, KT Corporation, has suffered a nationwide outage today, leaving all its 16.5 million customers without internet connectivity and telephony services for about 40 minutes. While the scenario of a DDoS attack was communicated as the most likely cause of the problem initially, the firm later explained that it was a routing error that took its services down.
The UK's largest retailer, supermarket titan Tesco, has restored its online operations after an attack hack left its customers unable to order, amend, or cancel deliveries for two days. A Tesco statement acknowledges disruption to the giant's grocery website and app, claiming "An attempt was made to interfere with our systems, which has caused problems with the search function on the site."
The University of Sunderland in the UK has announced extensive operational issues that have taken most of its IT systems down, attributing the problem to a cyber-attack. University updateThe University continues to experience extensive IT issues which has all the hallmarks of a cyber-attack.