Microsoft websites went down because of Anonymous

Neowin’s reporting that most popular websites belonging to Microsoft services, including microsoft.com, outlook.com, msn.com, office365.com, Microsoft Developer Network, TechNet, SkyDrive, the Windows Store, sites hosted on Windows Azure, xbox.com and Xbox Live broke down.
The Redmond-based tech company has become unavailable on Nov 22, by getting complaints from its users who tried to access Microsoft’ services provided with a “Server not found” error. Later it became clear that the site went down because of attacks initiated by Anonymous group and launched as a part of Operation Killing Bay.
“A couple days ago a DDoS attack was launched at Japanese Microsoft (Domain) Websites and Servers. We are sorry to report that the Japanese Microsoft Websites and Servers did not go down as planned. Although something did go down. We took the pretty much the entire Microsoft domains down,” Anonymous said in their letter.
“We are investigating the root cause of the disruption and will”, the company said.
Operation Killing Bay also known as Taiji. It’s named after a small village in Japan called Taiji. Taiji came into readers’ minds as a place where amount of dolphins slaughter taking place frequently.
Although, Microsoft confirmed that all online services have been restored. And in a very “short statement” that the restoration experienced a lot of problems.

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