Technology
Microsoft announced on Thursday a continued disruption affecting its electronic services, including the Outlook email, Teams platform, and the AI assistant Copilot, with no evidence of malicious activity or a cyberattack behind the issue. Charles Lamanna, the company's Executive Vice President, confirmed via X on Friday that there are no signs indicating that the outage, which began around 16:00 GMT, was caused by a cyberattack or harmful activity. The disruption affected multiple countries and organizations worldwide, with Downdetector reporting outage incidents in 74 countries and regions within an hour. The impact extended to government bodies in Australia, Japan, and the United States, as well as companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic. This marks the second outage of Microsoft 365 services this year, raising concerns about the reliability of the services provided to customers. The company stated that its attempts to restore services have not yet yielded the expected results and that it is reviewing data traffic flows and affected infrastructure to identify opportunities to improve data routing. Microsoft confirmed it will continue to share updates as they become available, emphasizing that there are currently no indications that the disruption resulted from malicious activity.
