Re:Global Microsoft Outage
by SubiculumCode on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:08AM
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Also, while they claim it is not a cybersecurity attack (without saying how they know), these are exactly the kinds of things I would expect with the soon/maybenowww future of automated hacking agents wrecking world's cyber infrastructure. Right now, its embarrassing, when it happens to the banks, it will be something more than that.
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Re:Global Microsoft Outage
by MisterMunchkin on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:10AM
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Yeah it’s either a hack or someone slopcoded something that has broken the servers so badly that they can’t be restored.
Re:Global Microsoft Outage
by ifwinterco on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:35AM
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It's a huge distributed system, they're not hard to break in weird ways.
Malice or gross incompetence isn't really required to break it, that's its natural state. You need high levels of competence to get it to work
Re:Global Microsoft Outage
by OriginalPenguin on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:28AM
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A successful cybersecurity attack on a major email provider like Outlook or Gmail is an attack on the banks. Access to a user's email account gives attackers most or perhaps all they need to access their bank accounts.
Re:Global Microsoft Outage
by UqWBcuFx6NV4r on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:59AM
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This take is bizarre and i’m really beginning to think that a scant few people are pushing it in bad faith in an attempt to spread rumours. It has no connection with reality. Extended downtime and faffing about with distributed systems issues all happen without it being caused by an attack.