Microsoft confirms that services affected by Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, and Copilot have been restored, and the email backlog has also been processed.
PANews, citing Reuters, reported that Microsoft services such as Outlook and Teams were down for more than 12 hours, affecting governments and enterprises in multiple countries worldwide; Microsoft said the system is stabilizing after the release of a fix patch.
Microsoft stated that multiple Microsoft 365 services may still be unavailable, service health remains unstable, and capacity has not yet been fully restored. Microsoft said there is currently no evidence indicating that this incident is related to malicious activity.
PANews, citing Microsoft's service status information, reported that multiple core services of Microsoft 365 have malfunctioned, affecting user access in many regions worldwide. Microsoft stated that a large number of servers became unexpectedly unavailable, causing increased load on the remaining servers.