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Observability's adoption is on the rise and full-stack observability leads to better service-level metrics, such as fewer, shorter outages and lower outage costs, according to New Relic. 32% of respondents said critical business app outages cost more than $500,000 per hour of downtime.
Trucking and fleet management solutions provider ORBCOMM has confirmed that a ransomware attack is behind recent service outages preventing trucking companies from managing their fleets.Customers have told BleepingComputer that ORBCOMM has not shared what was causing the outage and only recently said that they hope to restore services by September 29th. After contacting the company, ORBCOMM confirmed they suffered a ransomware attack on September 6th that impacted the company's FleetManager solution and Blue Tree product line.
Casino giant Caesars Entertainment has confirmed miscreants stole a database containing customer info, including driver license and social security numbers for a "Significant number" of its loyalty program members, in a social engineering attack earlier this month. It's also reported the arachnid crew hit both Caesars and MGM Resorts, though reps for Scattered Spider, also known as 0ktapus, claimed they only hit MGM and had nothing to do with the Caesars raid.
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage preventing customers from sending or receiving messages using the company's Microsoft Teams communication platform. Microsoft confirmed the outage in a tweet published via its official Microsoft 365 status account, saying that more details can be found under TM675041 in the admin center.
Payment processing firm Square says a widespread outage that took down a large part of the company's infrastructure last week was caused by a DNS issue. The 14-hour-long outage affected Square payment acceptance and other services and led to customers being unable to log into their accounts or process payments starting Thursday, around noon.
Rogers customers, primarily those located in Downtown Toronto and parts of Ontario, are reporting outages this week affecting their internet service. Rogers customers took to X to voice their concerns about internet outages in their area.
If you got snubbed by the object of your affections on dating app Coffee Meets Bagel in late August, don't feel bad, the company says its systems were down due to cyber baddies. Access to the service was finally restored on September 3 after the "Team spent days working around the clock to rebuild our system from online backups so that daters could securely get back online."
The Coffee Meets Bagel dating platform confirms last week's outage was caused by hackers breaching the company's systems and deleting company data. Last week, Coffee Meets Bagel suffered a worldwide outage, with users upset that they could not coordinate planned dates or continue communicating with their matches.
Cisco-owned multi-factor authentication provider Duo Security is investigating an ongoing outage that has been causing authentication failures and errors starting three hours ago. The outage also led to Core Authentication Service issues across multiple Duo servers, triggering Azure Auth authentication errors for Azure Conditional Access integrations in a systemwide outage.
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