The tech giant said efforts to resolve the issue were not going as expected, leaving services like Teams and Outlook disrupted into Friday.
\n\nThe Microsoft outage is not believed to be caused by a cyber event, an Australian government minister said, comparing it to the 2024 CrowdStrike outage.
\n\nHome Affairs Minister Tony Burke said he had spoken with Jane Livesey, president of Microsoft Australia and New Zealand. “They do not believe they are dealing with a cyber event,” he told reporters in Sydney. “They don’t believe they are dealing with a cyberattack, they believe that they’re dealing in some ways similar to what we say with respect to CrowdStrike where there is an update that has gone awry.”
\n\nMicrosoft says in its most recent update that it is seeing positive results in its bid to fix the major global outage.
\n\n“We’re seeing positive results for server stability after applying an upstream authentication/routing configuration component patch to a portion of our infrastructure,” the company said in an update about 2:30 a.m. ET.
\n\nIt said that it was “not aware of any malicious activity that is causing this incident,” adding that it would continue to work with “urgency” until the widespread issue…
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