Microsoft confirms ‘no evidence of malicious activity’ in widespread outage of Outlook

First reported by TechCrunch at Thu 1:03 PM · 5 outlets in all

1. Washington Examiner2hMicrosoft confirms ‘no evidence of malicious activity’ in widespread outage of OutlookMicrosoft said on Friday there is “no evidence of malicious activity” related to the global disruption of its Outlook email service and other Office 365 apps. “At this time, we have no evidence of malicious activity associated with this incident,” the technology company said at 6:11 a.m. “We will continue to treat this with urgency
2. The Verge3hMicrosoft’s massive Outlook outage continuesService is gradually starting to recover for Microsoft Outlook and 365 after an almost two-day outage impacting millions of users around the world. While some apps and features are still running in a degraded state, some people (including Verge staffers) are reporting that access to their emails has been restored, though the flow of Outlook
3. BBC8hWhy is the Microsoft outage lasting so long?Microsoft says it is seeing "improvements" following a global outage but efforts to fully resume services are ongoing.
4. Hacker News9hGlobal Microsoft Outage
5. TechCrunch20hMicrosoft’s Outlook email hit by new outageMicrosoft hasn't yet given a cause for the outage, which is affecting Outlook email users.