- Aug 17, 2017
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Author: Simon Sharwood
Rackspace has advised customers that "In order to best protect the environment, this will continue to be an extended outage of Hosted Exchange." The Register fancies that suggests whatever caused the incident could do more damage if the service were restored without careful triage – meaning there's malware somewhere and it could spread and at the time of writing, it is two days and twenty hours since Rackspace first noted an incident. Speculation is filling the information vacuum, with theories pondering whether Rackspace's Exchange implementation has been patched to cope with recently revealed exploits of the messaging server, or the many other flaws that can flatten Exchange. Rackspace's own email service experienced difficulties on November 29 – perhaps an exploratory foray by an attacker?
Rackspace email outage continues as migrations prove hard
Hosting company has nothing to say on data loss, restore times, or root cause
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