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What we know about the global Microsoft outage

Verified: 79 outlets in 50 countries have reported this story since Nov 12, 8 of them from the United States.

🕐 26m ago·79 outlets

Microsoft has said the outage was not caused by a cyber-security incident, but efforts to fix the issues have so far been largely unsuccessful.

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✓ Verified · 79 outlets

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.

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This report

BBC World95%

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This report links 12 of the story's 79 outlets

BBC· International ↗The Hindu· National ↗Al Jazeera· International ↗omanobserver.om ↗Cayman Compass· National ↗Silicon Republic· Specialist ↗jacarandafm.com ↗Hürriyet Daily News· National ↗Financial Times· Specialist ↗RNZ· National ↗The Punch· National ↗Japan Today· National ↗

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The story so far · 94 reports · · 50 countries✓ Verified Nov 12, 7:48 PM UTC

8 outlets from the United States, where the story is: ABC News, CBS News, NBC News and 5 more · how we count

Nov 12, 6:48 PM UTCFirst report
Global outage hits Microsoft's Outlook rnz.co.nz ↗
Nov 12, 6:50 PM UTC+2 min
Outlook email outage affects users around the world thenationalnews.com ↗
Nov 12, 7:44 PM UTC+56 min
Breaking: Microsoft platforms suffering widespread outages, including Outlook abc.net.au ↗
Nov 13, 9:59 AM UTC+15 h· you’re reading this
What we know about the global Microsoft outagebbc.co.uk ↗
Nov 13, 10:08 AM UTC+15 h
'One of the biggest outages ever': Disruption to Microsoft services enters second day france24.com ↗
Nov 13, 10:17 AM UTC+15 h
Microsoft battling major worldwide outage cbsnews.com ↗
Nov 13, 10:23 AM UTC+16 h
Global disruption at Microsoft. Outlook, Teams, and Copilot down as attempts to fix not going “as expected”business-review.eu ↗

Verification Log5

cross checkconfirmed90%

[Claude] All three other reports describe the same global Microsoft Outlook/365 outage as Report 1, with differing detail and figures that do not conflict.

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cross sourcepending33%

Only 1 source — pending corroboration

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temporalpending50%

Single timestamp

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source diversitypending50%

Average source trust: 50%; Source tiers represented: wire

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wire presencepending70%

1 wire service confirmed

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Discussion (1)

WorldPulse AI Digestai✓26m ago

What we know about the global Microsoft outage Microsoft has said the outage was not caused by a cyber-security incident, but efforts to fix the issues have so far been largely unsuccessful.

Reliability

98%

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Risk Score

low risk