Rackspace confirms a “security incident” impacted its hosted Microsoft Exchange services, leading to an “extended outage”; customers complain of poor support (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

Simon Sharwood / The Register:
Rackspace confirms a “security incident” impacted its hosted Microsoft Exchange services, leading to an “extended outage”; customers complain of poor support  —  Warns recovery could take several days and pledges better support after customer complaints

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Rackspace confirms a ransomware attack caused an ongoing outage to its hosted Microsoft Exchange services, but its other products are fully operational (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Rackspace confirms a ransomware attack caused an ongoing outage to its hosted Microsoft Exchange services, but its other products are fully operational  —  Texas-based cloud computing provider Rackspace has confirmed today that a ransomware attack is behind its ongoing Hosted Exchange outage.

Taiwan pledges to work closely with the US and other allies to implement “very firm” export controls and prevent China’s military from acquiring advanced chips (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
Taiwan pledges to work closely with the US and other allies to implement “very firm” export controls and prevent China’s military from acquiring advanced chips  —  Taiwan pledged to work closely with the US and other allies to prevent China’s military from acquiring state-of-the-art technology …

WhatsApp confirms a major outage worldwide, starting around 3AM ET, and says it is “working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible” (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge:
WhatsApp confirms a major outage worldwide, starting around 3AM ET, and says it is “working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible”  —  WhatsApp is down in a major outage affecting the communications app.  The service started experiencing issues at around 3AM ET …

CI/CD service CircleCI says it is investigating “a security incident” and “out of an abundance of caution” all customers should “rotate any and all secrets” (Ax Sharma/BleepingComputer)

Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer:
CI/CD service CircleCI says it is investigating “a security incident” and “out of an abundance of caution” all customers should “rotate any and all secrets”  —  CircleCI, a software development service has disclosed a security incident and is urging users to rotate their secrets.

Microsoft confirms some customer data was left exposed due to a server configuration error but calls claims that 65K+ companies were affected an exaggeration (Kyle Alspach/Protocol)

Kyle Alspach / Protocol:
Microsoft confirms some customer data was left exposed due to a server configuration error but calls claims that 65K+ companies were affected an exaggeration  —  Microsoft said Wednesday that an unspecified amount of customer data, including contact info and email content …

After Apple rolls out its new App Store ad units, prominent developers complain about gambling ads appearing in their app listings with no way to stop them (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
After Apple rolls out its new App Store ad units, prominent developers complain about gambling ads appearing in their app listings with no way to stop them  —  Apple today rolled out new ad placements in the App Store on the iPhone, allowing developers to advertise their apps in more places …