Microsoft Services Outage Continues For Second Day; Company Rules Out Known Malicious Activity (File-Representational Image)
\n\nMicrosoft's workplace services, including Outlook and Teams remained disrupted for users in India and elsewhere on Friday, a day after the global outage began, with the company saying it was still working to pinpoint the cause and is not aware of any malicious activity behind it.
\n\nMicrosoft's service health page showed "service degradation" for Microsoft 365 business and enterprise customers as well as its consumer products, as of an update at 11.16 am India time on Friday. The company said it was pursuing multiple workstreams to pinpoint the underlying cause of a traffic influx and to recover its backend servers.
\n\n"As of now, we are not aware of any malicious activity that is causing this incident," Microsoft stated, adding that full details of the root cause would be shared in a post-incident report once the issue is mitigated. In India, airline IndiGo said its email support services were impacted due to the global Microsoft service disruption, and it may not be able to receive customers' emails. All other support channels remain available, the airline said in a post on X on Friday, asking customers who…
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