A massive outage in Microsoft’s systems has caused chaos around the world, leaving millions of users without access to essential services such as Outlook and Teams for more than 12 hours.
The problem has affected not only employees of various companies, but also important institutions, including banks, governments and courts in several countries.
According to the Downdetector platform, reports of the outage spread to 74 countries and territories within about an hour. In the United States, employees of several companies were forced to leave work earlier because they could not use the systems.
Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, employees of well-known banks such as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs confirmed to CNN that the outage had hindered their activity.
Despite efforts to restore the services, Microsoft has still not fully resolved the problem. Initially, the company announced that it was seeing positive results from its technical interventions, but several hours later it acknowledged that it had not achieved a stable restoration of the systems.
Microsoft has confirmed that the outage was not caused by a cyberattack or security breach, while millions of users around the world continue to face difficulties using the company’s services.