Microsoft outage hits companies, governments worldwide

A Microsoft outage disrupted Outlook, Teams, Copilot and other Microsoft 365 services for users, companies and some government operations worldwide. The company said the problem affected services connected to Exchange Online and email, and that it was working to identify and repair the affected infrastructure. More than 130,000 users reported Outlook problems on Downdetector at the peak. Microsoft said it had no indication the outage was caused by malicious activity.