Microsoft said an outage of Azure cloud applications was triggered by a distributed-denial-of-service cyberattack.
The DDoS attack began early Tuesday and an error in Microsoft’s automated protection mechanisms worsened the impact rather than mitigating it, the company said in a For example, mobile ordering at Starbucks Corp. was disabled for hours because of the issues affecting Azure, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The incidents have become a persistent annoyance for financial institutions, causing intermittent downtime and forcing security staffers to repel the activity. The company was working to address limited interruptions that continued, a Starbucks spokesperson said.
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