Yep. Not OP’s fault, but clearly the author of the original article has no clue what they are even reporting about. And putting “We were hacked” after a colon sounds like a direct quote, which nobody in their right mind would have used in this context.
Interesting - I wonder if this “hack” (side note: article’s author needs a slap in the face with a fucking chair) still would’ve happened had they not moved the Office CDN from Akamai to their own Azure CDN…?
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Not a great headline. DDoS attacks and hacking are two very different things.
Yep. Not OP’s fault, but clearly the author of the original article has no clue what they are even reporting about. And putting “We were hacked” after a colon sounds like a direct quote, which nobody in their right mind would have used in this context.
i wonder if microsoft could sue the newspaper for what is, essentially, slander
Interesting - I wonder if this “hack” (side note: article’s author needs a slap in the face with a fucking chair) still would’ve happened had they not moved the Office CDN from Akamai to their own Azure CDN…?