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Microsoft Services Outage Affects 74 Countries and Regions Worldwide - Sarmad

Microsoft Services Outage Affects 74 Countries and Regions Worldwide - Sarmad
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A Microsoft services outage affects 74 countries and regions; the company confirms no security breach.

Translated by Qiyas from سرمد — Original source

A glitch in Microsoft services, including Outlook email and the Teams meeting platform, caused disruptions in approximately 74 countries and regions worldwide 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 of Microsoft’s core tools and services used in modern workplaces. Numerous banks, governments, and organizations were impacted, including the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, as well as U.S. firms Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.

On its part, Microsoft stated that it is “seeing positive results” in its efforts to fix the problem, emphasizing that the service interruption was “not the result of a cyberattack.”

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