Was Microsoft attacked?

[Karl_3000]

Microsoft said it is not a cyber attack.

What we know about the global Microsoft outage:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwvg238zrnm5o

You can read the news to know what have happened and to what extent people have been affected. Hundreds of millions of people are using Microsoft.

It was just few days ago that Bill Gates and Elon Musk fought on the internet and this is happening now to Microsoft. I hope this has nothing to do with what happened between the two of them.

I hope Microsoft will solve this fast because this may later have consequences.

[adultcrypto]

Microsoft confirmed the outage was not an attack but caused by

Code:

portion of infrastructure had "elevated load" - a large number of servers became unexpectedly unavailable. 
Process that establishes secure connections got overwhelmed and stopped processing requests

The good thing is that Microsoft has accepted to pay so claims to affected people of which my company was one, we were unable to send no receive emails since money. Right now, the email function is back but very dull probably because the system is still being worked on.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cq5y10ge3dp3t better link with no paywall.

[Agbamoni]

Two days ago, I couldn't sign in to my Outlook on another device until today. Was wondering why, but now I know.

Millions of people are using Microsoft Teams for meetings. I can't imagine what damage that will cause. However, there are lots of meeting software options. Zoom, Google Meet, Voov, etc. This means most Microsoft customers will shift to a different company.