The incident has reportedly impacted the servers of federal agencies, schools, and energy companies. Some emergency patches have been deployed. On July 19, Microsoft alerted users that it was experiencing an active cyberattack on its SharePoint servers,

A global cyberattack exploiting a zero-day flaw in Microsoft SharePoint servers has compromised thousands of organizations, prompting urgent security updates and coordinated federal response.

Microsoft Corp. issued a progress report on what it described as the largest cybersecurity engineering project in history.