Microsoft apologises for global outage and rules out cyberattack
Verified: 150 outlets in 79 countries have reported this story since Nov 12, 11 of them from the United States.
The tech giant said on Saturday that service has now been restored across Teams, Outlook, and its other products, ending the shutdown.
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Two or more outlets reported this story and its reliability score reached 65%, so WorldPulse marks it verified. That means more than one outlet says so, not that it is proven true.
Who reported it
11 outlets from the United States, where the story is: ABC News, Bloomberg, CBS News and 8 more · how we count
- Nov 12, 6:48 PM UTCFirst reportGlobal outage hits Microsoft's Outlookrnz.co.nz ↗
- Nov 12, 6:50 PM UTC+2 minOutlook email outage affects users around the worldthenationalnews.com ↗
- Nov 12, 7:44 PM UTC+56 minBreaking: Microsoft platforms suffering widespread outages, including Outlookabc.net.au ↗
- Nov 14, 1:03 PM UTC+42 hMicrosoft says services fully restored after day-long global outagegraphic.com.gh ↗
- Nov 14, 2:39 PM UTC+44 hMassive Microsoft outage disrupts businesses, schools and governments around the worldegyptindependent.com ↗
- Nov 14, 3:06 PM UTC+44 h· you’re reading thisMicrosoft apologises for global outage and rules out cyberattackafricanews.com ↗
- Nov 14, 3:10 PM UTC+44 hMicrosoft says services fully restored after global disruptionglobalnews.ca ↗
[Claude] The outlets differ: Report 1 says the outage was resolved Saturday with no cyberattack, while Report 3 cites 74 countries and Report 4 attributes a Thursday email outage to a network capacity upgrade, conflicting on deta
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