Microsoft Says Outage Was a "Technical Issue," Not a Hack
Microsoft said service availability is improving as email queues shrink and some users still face intermittent access issues after the global outage.
- On Friday, Microsoft reported "sustained improvements" in recovery efforts across North America and Europe following a global outage that began Thursday, disrupting Outlook, Teams, and Copilot.
- After several servers became "unexpectedly unavailable," Microsoft described the cause as "elevated load" on its infrastructure, pushing extra traffic onto remaining systems across 74 countries.
- Monitoring website Downdetector recorded almost 140,000 complaints about Outlook at 6pm GMT on Thursday, with reports peaking at more than 2,000 times their normal level across 60 countries.
- Public services including UKPolice and NHS reported disruption, with officials advising the public to call 101 for urgent matters. A National Pharmacy Association spokesperson said "waits may be longer than normal and there may be delays to some prescriptions."
- Microsoft found "no evidence of malicious activity" and plans to release an incident report. This marks the fourth major outage the company has faced in 2026, impacting its 430 million users.
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Microsoft says services fully restored after hourslong global outage – WTOP News
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Millions of users from over 70 countries have been affected for nearly 24 hours by a major malfunction that has paralysed essential services such as Outlook, Microsoft Teams and Copilot. The American tech giant has announced that the problem has been fixed. After more than one day his services have been unavailable...
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