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.
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.
A Microsoft outage disrupted Outlook and Teams worldwide, with reports from scores of countries and territories. Problems from 74 countries and territories within about an hour.
Microsoft says servers unexpectedly went offline, disrupting Outlook email, Teams, Copilot and other services.
An alert on Microsoft’s site said it was ‘aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact’ and blamed a server issue Microsoft says it is “aggressively pursuing all pathways” after users reported issues accessing its 365 suite of programs, including Outlook and Teams. Outage website Down Detector showed a spike in Microsoft 365 problems, with nearly 130,000 reports of issues affecting access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams as well as enterprise services such as SharePoint and OneDrive.