Microsoft says cyber-attack triggered latest outage
A global outage affecting Microsoft products including email service Outlook and video game Minecraft has been resolved, the technology giant said in an update.
The company says preliminary investigations show that the outage was caused by a cyber-attack and a failure to properly defend against it. The incident lasted almost 10 hours and caused thousands of users to report issues with Microsoft services.
Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Azure, was affected along with other services including Office, Outlook, Intune, and Entra. The company apologised for the inconvenience and said it had implemented a fix which “shows improvement” but will continue to monitor the situation to ensure full recovery.
The outage appears to have impacted other services that rely on Microsoft’s platforms, including Cambridge Water, HM Courts and Tribunals Service, NatWest, and FC Twente.+
+Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c903e793w74o