Glitch Affects Some Microsoft Services; Company Confirms It Is Not Due to a Security Breach
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Kuwait City, November 13 (KUNA) -- A malfunction in Microsoft services, including Outlook email and Teams for meetings, disrupted operations in approximately 74 countries and regions since Thursday evening. The company confirmed that it is working to resolve the issue and that the outage was not caused by a security breach.
Downdetector, a website specializing in tracking internet outages, reported that the disruption affected many core Microsoft tools and services used in the modern workplace. Numerous banks, governments, and organizations were impacted, including the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, as well as U.S.-based Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
On its part, Microsoft stated that it is “seeing positive results” in its efforts to resolve the problem, emphasizing that the service disruption “was not caused by a cyberattack.” (End) T.M.A.
