Microsoft 365 outage disrupts Outlook, Teams and government email
Original title: Microsoft Struggles to Restore Email and Other Services in a Global Outage
Microsoft reported early stabilization Friday but said capacity was still below baseline and it saw no sign of a cyberattack.
A global Microsoft outage affecting Microsoft 365 services that use Exchange Online and email, including Outlook, Teams and Copilot, lasted for hours and hit users, companies and some government operations from Asia to the United States. Microsoft said recovery was phased, with early stabilization and incremental improvement, while service health stayed variable. It said it had no indication of malicious activity. UK police online crime reporting, NHS pharmacy email, and government systems in the UK, Japan, Singapore and the Philippines were among those affected.
Unconfirmed: Microsoft had not identified a cause and said it had no indication of malicious activity; the CrowdStrike comparison is Australia’s account of what Microsoft told officials.
- Microsoft said it had more than 450 million paid Microsoft 365 commercial subscriptions as of January.
- UK police could not take online crime reports and asked people to call for urgent matters.
- The National Pharmacy Association warned of prescription delays tied to NHS email.
- Australia’s home affairs minister said Microsoft likened it to the 2024 CrowdStrike outage.
- OpenAI and Anthropic each reported trouble connecting to Microsoft 365 tools.
- Vendors
- Microsoft
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