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

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5 outlets covering · First listed: Washington Examiner, Nov 13, 2026, 7:33 AM · Read it: <https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/4802492/microsoft-no-evidence-malicious-activity-outage-outlook/>

Microsoft 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

## Who's covering it

In the order they published:

- Nov 12, 2026, 1:03 PM: [Microsoft’s Outlook email hit by new outage](<https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/12/microsofts-outlook-email-hit-by-new-outage/>) — TechCrunch (Digital news, United States)
  Microsoft hasn't yet given a cause for the outage, which is affecting Outlook email users.
- Nov 13, 2026, 12:18 AM: [Global Microsoft Outage](<https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/12/business/live-news/microsoft-global-outage-intl-hnk>) — Hacker News (Aggregator, United States)
- Nov 13, 2026, 1:37 AM: [Why is the Microsoft outage lasting so long?](<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwvg238zrnm5o>) — BBC (Public broadcaster, United Kingdom, rated Center)
  Microsoft says it is seeing "improvements" following a global outage but efforts to fully resume services are ongoing.
- Nov 13, 2026, 6:48 AM: [Microsoft’s massive Outlook outage continues](<https://www.theverge.com/tech/1032862/microsoft-outlook-down-outage>) — The Verge (Digital news, United States)
  Service 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
- Nov 13, 2026, 7:33 AM: [Microsoft confirms ‘no evidence of malicious activity’ in widespread outage of Outlook](<https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/4802492/microsoft-no-evidence-malicious-activity-outage-outlook/>) — Washington Examiner (Magazine, United States, rated Lean right)
  Microsoft 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