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  "id": 19778670,
  "title": "Microsoft 365 outage affects hundreds of thousands globally",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/microsoft-365-outage-affects-hundreds-of-thousands-globally",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-11-13T08:25:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Silicon Republic",
    "slug": "silicon-republic",
    "url": "https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/microsoft-365-outage-affects-hundreds-of-thousands-globally"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Microsoft has reported a global outage impacting hundreds of thousands of users across its Microsoft 365 business products. The service disruption, which has persisted for over 12 hours at the time of writing, has affected various applications such as Outlook, Copilot, Teams, 365 Education, admin functionalities, and Defender security tools. According to Downdetector, a popular outage-tracking site, the issues have particularly affected Exchange, Excel, and login functionalities, with disruptions spanning 74 countries. Reports originating from Ireland peaked around 6:00pm on November 12th, with the count exceeding 500 as of the publication time.\n\nMicrosoft attributed the issue to unexpected server unavailability across multiple regions, which has placed strain on its remaining infrastructure. The company stated, \"As of now, we are not aware of any malicious activity that is causing this incident.\" They are continuing to monitor the situation and have observed marginal success. Major organizations including OpenAI, New Zealand's foreign ministry, Australia's intelligence agency, federal police, and various government offices across the US and Japan have been impacted by the ongoing incident. While this is not the first major cloud service outage of the year, it underscores the critical role that Microsoft and other tech giants play in modern digital infrastructure.",
  "summary": "Microsoft says it does not suspect foul play behind the outage at this time. Read more: Microsoft 365 outage affects hundreds of thousands globally",
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        "outlet": "BBC Business",
        "title": "Microsoft struggling to restore service as global outage affects Outlook and Teams",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/microsoft-struggling-to-restore-service-as-global-outage-affects",
        "published": "2026-11-12T20:25:29.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
        "title": "Microsoft struggling to restore service as global outage affects Outlook and Teams",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/microsoft-struggling-to-restore-service-as-global-outage-affects-19749979",
        "published": "2026-11-13T01:44:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "KahawaTungu",
        "title": "Microsoft struggling to restore service as global outage affects Outlook and Teams",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/microsoft-struggling-to-restore-service-as-global-outage-affects-19758150",
        "published": "2026-11-13T04:13:21.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Business Times - Singapore",
        "title": "Some Singapore government systems affected by Microsoft outage; no impact on Singpass: GovTech",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/some-singapore-government-systems-affected-by-microsoft-outage-no",
        "published": "2026-11-13T04:40:33.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Business Insider",
        "title": "The Microsoft outage is disrupting email. These business leaders barely use it anyway.",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/the-microsoft-outage-is-disrupting-email-these-business-leaders",
        "published": "2026-11-13T06:07:12.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Guardian Business",
        "title": "Microsoft outage live: Microsoft’s global outage will cost Australia billions, expert says; US tech giants and Indian airlines also affected",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/microsoft-outage-live-microsofts-global-outage-will-cost-australia",
        "published": "2026-11-13T06:59:28.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Daily Maverick",
        "title": "Reporter’s notebook: Microsoft scrambles as Outlook inbox goes dark",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/reporters-notebook-microsoft-scrambles-as-outlook-inbox-goes-dark",
        "published": "2026-11-13T07:00:51.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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