{
  "id": 19969660,
  "title": "Microsoft restores Teams, Outlook after over 24-hour global outage, rules out cyberattack",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/14/microsoft-restores-teams-outlook-after-over-24-hour-global-outage",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-14T11:06:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nairametrics",
    "slug": "nairametrics",
    "url": "https://nairametrics.com/2026/11/14/microsoft-restores-teams-outlook-after-over-24-hour-global-outage-rules-out-cyberattack/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Microsoft has fully restored its Teams and Outlook services after a global outage that lasted over 24 hours, the company announced on Saturday. The disruption caused widespread issues with online communications for businesses, government agencies, and organizations worldwide. Microsoft attributed the outage to server-related problems, ruling out any malicious activity as the cause. The disruption affected core workplace applications, including Teams, Outlook, and the Copilot AI assistant, disrupting essential operations such as email communication, calendar management, and virtual meetings. Microsoft's outage-tracking platform, Downdetector, registered more than 7.4 million reports worldwide, with peak activity nearing 20,000 reports per minute. The incident could potentially trigger insurance claims from affected businesses, though the overall impact on insurers is expected to be limited. Early estimates suggest global insured losses could range between $300 million and $500 million, according to Morningstar DBRS. This outage is another example of a major technology provider experiencing a significant disruption, following similar incidents involving other cloud infrastructure providers in recent years.",
  "summary": "Microsoft has fully restored services across Teams, Outlook and its other products following a global outage that disrupted online communications for businesses, government agencies and other organisations for more than 24 hours, while ruling out malicious activity as the cause. The post Microsoft restores Teams, Outlook after over 24-hour global outage, rules out cyberattack appeared first on…",
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      {
        "outlet": "Engadget",
        "title": "Microsoft services are returning after an outage took down Outlook, Teams and more",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/microsoft-services-are-returning-after-an-outage-took-down-outlook",
        "published": "2026-11-13T16:35:36.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Bangkok Post Business",
        "title": "Outlook outage sounds cloud alarm",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/outlook-outage-sounds-cloud-alarm",
        "published": "2026-11-13T21:21:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "SiliconANGLE",
        "title": "Massive Microsoft outage disrupts businesses, government agencies worldwide",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/14/massive-microsoft-outage-disrupts-businesses-government-agencies",
        "published": "2026-11-14T00:00:08.000Z"
      }
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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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