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Some Singapore Government Systems Affected by Microsoft Outage: GovTech

  • On Thursday, a global Microsoft 365 outage disrupted Outlook, Teams, and Copilot, leaving users across several continents unable to access work inboxes and enterprise tools for more than 12 hours.
  • Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said Microsoft believes an "update that has gone awry" caused the incident, while Charles Lamanna, executive vice president for Copilot, Agents, and Platform, ruled out malicious activity.
  • Tracking site Downdetector logged more than 130,000 reports as outage reports reached 74 countries and territories in about an hour, affecting business and enterprise customers globally.
  • Disruptions hit banks, airlines, and governments worldwide, while Standard Chartered and ING Australia warned of scammers exploiting the outage as email-security systems remained offline.
  • Leaders in Europe meet in Dublin to discuss reducing reliance on foreign technology, a conversation amplified by the outage's exposure of dangerous dependence on a handful of global providers.
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A global outage in Microsoft services has affected Outlook, Teams, Copilot and other apps used for email, online meetings, file sharing and work communication. Users around the world are reporting that they are unable to open their inboxes, send or receive messages and use some calendar features. Reports of Outlook issues on Downdetector reached nearly 140,000 at around 18:00 GMT on Thursday. Reports have been filed by users in 74 countries, but…

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Until produced globally in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and manifested itself especially to two of the company's flagship services- Outlook e-mail service and Teams platform - it was not caused by...

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3cat.cat broke the news on Thursday, November 12, 2026.
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