Rackspace Cloud Office suffers destructive security breach

Thousands of small to medium size businesses are suffering as Rackspace have suffered a security breach on their Hosted Exchange service. Rackspace have now confirmed this is a ransomware incident.

Yesterday, 2nd December 2022, Rackspace announced an outage to their Hosted Exchange Server:

Updated followed through the day, but were a little vague:

I got involved in the end, as I noticed something and documented it in this thread: