Glitches in Some 'Microsoft' Services... Company Confirms No Security Breach
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Microsoft services disrupted in 74 countries, with the company confirming no security breach.
Translated by Qiyas from السياسة — Original source
A glitch caused outages in several Microsoft services, including Outlook email and the Teams meeting platform, across approximately 74 countries and regions since Thursday evening, while the company confirmed it is working to resolve the issue and that the disruption was not caused by a security breach.
The outage-tracking website Downdetector reported that the fault affected many of Microsoft’s core tools and services used in modern workplaces, impacting numerous banks, governments, and institutions, including the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and U.S. firms Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
For 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.”
