Microsoft has said sorry for an outage that locked millions of people out of Outlook, Teams and Copilot for nearly a full day. The company insists hackers were not behind it, but lawmakers in Washington want answers anyway.
\n\nThe trouble began on Thursday, when a batch of Microsoft servers stopped responding. Users lost access to their accounts for much of the day, and the problems carried into Friday morning while engineers worked to bring the systems back.
\n\nOn Friday, Microsoft posted on X that the affected servers were showing “encouraging recovery progress.” In a separate post, the company said it was “deeply sorry” for the disruption and promised to publish a report explaining what went wrong.
\n\nThe picture in Europe was not the same everywhere. Politico reported that many of the European Union’s central institutions managed to keep working through the disruption.
\n\nThat may now come back to haunt Microsoft. Rep. Andrew Garbarino, a New York Republican who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said in a statement that he is seeking more information from both Microsoft and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
\n\nGarbarino described the outage as a reminder of the risk that builds up when so much…
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