The attack caused intermittent outages for about a day.
article said a spokeswoman confirmed the group to be Anonymous Sudan, a group that has been active since at least January, says an article in
, which reported on the attack the day it happened. Per that article, the group claimed its attack lasted about an hour and a half before it stopped.AP story, there is “no way to measure the impact if Microsoft doesn’t provide that info,” and he wasn’t aware of Outlook having been hit this hard before.
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