Microsoft 365 Outage Affects Thousands of Users Globally, Linked to AT&T Networks

Sep 12, 2024, 01:46 PM

Microsoft's suite of productivity tools, Microsoft 365, experienced a widespread outage on Thursday, affecting thousands of users globally. Downdetector reported over 21,000 incidents of users unable to access services such as Outlook, Teams, Xbox Live, and Azure cloud service. The outage appears to be linked to AT&T networks, with Microsoft investigating the potential issue. AT&T has stated that the issue has been resolved and connections are now operating normally. This marks the second major outage for Microsoft in two months. Microsoft is continuing to monitor network telemetry data to ensure a full recovery.