Microsoft Outlook outage disrupts email access for thousands of users
More than 140,000 outage reports were recorded by 1:30 pm on Thursday as server issues affected the email system.
Microsoft's Outlook email system experienced a disruption on Thursday afternoon, affecting a large number of users. According to the New York Post, website tracker Downdetector recorded over 140,000 outage reports by 1:30 pm on Thursday.
The tech company, which has more than 400 million active users, stated that several servers became unexpectedly unavailable. This situation placed strain on the remaining infrastructure.
In a statement, Microsoft said they were looking into reports of users in the Americas having trouble reaching Exchange Online mailboxes via various connection methods.
The company's service page for its product suite, including Microsoft 360, showed buffering for almost 30 minutes before notifying users that services might be non-functional.
It remains unclear what caused the server issues, but Microsoft is working to bring the systems back online.