PUTRAJAYA, July 24: Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo today said that his ministry will be discussing with Microsoft on the issue of potential compensation claims arising from companies that had been affected by Friday’s worldwide outage of Microsoft’s cloud computing services.
At a press conference here today to address the outage that affected many sectors including in Malaysia from transportation to health services, he indicated that it was not a matter of cybersecurity but more of system weaknesses.
He also addressed the immediate phishing activities following the outage, said to be caused by an update of the service that affected millions of Microsoft-Windows based devices worldwide.
The phishing activities had targetted affected companies, taking advantage of the outage to seek the companies’ data, Gobind said. He said the government had quickly intervened to control the situation.