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Rackspace - Hosted Exchange drama / down for days

Hi,
Seems like Rackspace is having a bad time. Hosted Exchange e-mail service down for days...
https://status.apps.rackspace.com/index/viewincidents?group=2
Comments
https://www.scmagazine.com/news/cloud-security/rackspace-confirms-email-outage-was-from-a-ransomware-attack
I blame Microsoft. Exchange has been just one after another with vulnerabilities reaching exploitation in the wild. I might go as far as to say everyone hosting it should be warning customers of a lack of confidence in this scenario never happening. I definitely feel for the admins working on it.
When you are actively helping your own customers to migrate to o365, then its bad. Really bad. Their exchange must be f*cked up beyond repair (which I can tell by experience from having worked with exchange, doesn't really take that much).
Can't blame Microsoft for someone at Rackspace running something that installed ransomware. I can guarantee someone is gonna be on the job hunt soon if they haven't found a scapegoat already.