Microsoft rules out cyberattack in global Outlook and Teams outage

November 13, 2026

Microsoft has ruled out a cyberattack as the cause of a widespread global outage affecting Outlook, Teams, and its artificial intelligence assistant, Copilot. The tech giant blames the disruption on elevated load across its server infrastructure in multiple regions. Outage-tracking site Downdetector reports that users in 74 countries, including South Africa, the US, the UK, Australia, India, and Japan, have been hit by the service failures. Meanwhile, Microsoft has admitted its technical efforts to resolve the problem are not progressing as expected.

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