Companies and consumers worldwide were affected by a major cloud-based service disruption at Microsoft. At Deutsche Bahn email communications were temporarily down.
A major disruption affecting Microsoft has seen many companies around the world cut off from email and Microsoft 365 cloud-based services, including in Germany.
The outage on November 12th and 13th affected Microsoft services worldwide, including Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Copilot, and Exchange Online. Reports confirm impacts in 74 countries.
Germany’s national railway operator Deutsche Bahn said the outage had disrupted email communications, making it difficult to send out timetables for diverted trains.
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The outage was reported to have begun on Thursday around 5pm Berlin time, and was also linked to other disrupted online services at OpenAI and Anthropic.
Microsoft initially said that its efforts to restore services were not working as expected.
According to Microsoft, there are no indications of a cyberattack.
Engineers at the software company suggested that a process responsible for establishing secure connections was overloaded on affected servers. In response the company reversed it’s latest configuration update, which coincided with the beginning of the disruption.
Outages of online services are are not uncommon, but rarely do they last for hours to days or spread as far in their impacts.
Microsoft’s cloud and email services had experienced an hour-long large-scale outage at the end of August, during which users were unable to log in or send and receive messages for hours.
In 2024, a major Microsoft glitch related to the Crowdstrike anti-virus software, resulted in outages of companies’ computer systems around the world. In Germany this resulted in a temporary shut down of the Berlin airport, and delays at other airports.
With reporting by DPA.
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