{
  "id": 19798103,
  "title": "Microsoft rules out 'malicious activity' as cause for global outage",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/microsoft-rules-out-malicious-activity-as-cause-for-global-outage-19798103",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-13T07:46:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "DW English (Top Stories)",
    "slug": "dw-english-top-stories",
    "url": "https://www.dw.com/en/microsoft-rules-out-malicious-activity-as-cause-for-global-outage/a-79935611?maca=en-rss-en-top-1022-xml-mrss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A Microsoft outage disrupted Outlook and Teams worldwide, with reports from scores of countries and territories. The software giant said that it was \"not aware\" of malicious activity that could have caused the outage.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Hindu - Sci-Tech",
        "title": "Microsoft Outage LIVE: Microsoft says steps to fix Outlook outage not going 'as expected'",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/microsoft-outage-live-microsoft-says-steps-to-fix-outlook-outage-not",
        "published": "2026-11-13T06:38:53.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Register Science",
        "title": "Microsoft's massive M365 outage stretches past 15 hours as its fixes keep failing",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/microsofts-massive-m365-outage-stretches-past-15-hours-as-its-fixes",
        "published": "2026-11-13T06:40:06.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}