Microsoft works to resolve widespread outages affecting Outlook and other services

Microsoft is trying to resolve outages across some of its services this morning, with users continuing to experience disruption.

Microsoft has over 430 million users worldwide, all using Microsoft 365 apps. Monitoring website Downdetector had shown that 140,000 reported issues with Outlook specifically yesterday evening.

There is expected to be a knock-on effect on other services, due to their reliance on Microsoft services.

Users are being urged to be vigilant to scams as scammers may use this as an opportunity to trick people into clicking bogus links.

An Garda Síochána Kilkenny shared a statement to their social media account, saying: “As Microsoft continue to experience email and other internet difficulties, please be aware that online scammers will increase text messages and other ways to offer a solution to your email issues. NEVER EVER CLICK ON A LINK!!”.

Microsoft said: “As of now, we are not aware of any malicious activity that is causing this incident. We will continue to treat this incident with urgency and priority until full resolution.”

The HSE confirmed that emails are not being transmitted due to issues with Microsoft services.