Microsoft said Thursday that it was not aware of any “malicious activity” behind the hours-long disruption of its Outlook services. “As of now, we are not aware of any malicious activity that is causing this incident. We will continue to treat this incident with urgency and priority until full resolution,” Microsoft said.
SINGAPORE, Nov 13 – Microsoft says it is racing to resolve a global disruption affecting its apps and services. Microsoft executive Charles Lamanna ruled out a cybersecurity incident, saying the global outage was not caused by malicious activity or hacking.
Microsoft said on Thursday that efforts to repair a major outage of Outlook were not going as expected and the firm was seeking alternative solutions as users around the world were left without its crucial services. A map posted by Downdetector on X showed the outage affected users across the Americas and parts of Europe, Asia and Africa.
…Apologises to customers By Juliet Umeh The US-based technology, Microsoft, has blamed a recent network change for a global outage that disrupted its workplace services, including Outlook, Teams and Copilot. Microsoft said services were restored gradually because of the scale of demand.
Experts say the event is a "stark reminder" of how heavily the world relies on a small group of big tech providers.
A Microsoft outage is affecting services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot.
Outlook and Teams failures impact government agencies, schools and businesses. Microsoft says some servers are returning to service and streamlined recovery process under way to end a global outage Microsoft begins restoring services amid global outage affecting Outlook and Teams Home affairs minister says Microsoft ‘do not believe they are dealing with a cyber event’ Australia’s federal police and security services were affected by the Microsoft outage, the heads of those agencies have confirmed.