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SAT, 14 NOV · 97 ITEMS
Reuters, CTV News, The Australian + 9 more · AI & Technology
65 outletsMicrosoft experienced a major global outage on November 12-13, 2026, disrupting its cloud services including Outlook, Teams, and across 74 countries. The company attributed the disruption to rather than a cybersecurity breach, and services began recovering after more than 14 hours. The incident is distinct from the 2024 CrowdStrike-triggered global IT outage, though both caused widespread business and government disruption.
The claim is well-supported by multiple credible news organizations (BBC, CNN, AP, Reuters, Al Jazeera) reporting Microsoft's own statements. The primary source is Microsoft's internal incident reports and public updates, which the outlets are relaying with consistent framing. No independent verification of the root cause (server overload) is available, but the outage itself is confirmed by user reports and company acknowledgment.
Genuinely new: the outage occurred on November 12-13, 2026, and the reporting is from the same days.
We covered the July 2024 global IT outage caused by a flawed CrowdStrike update, which grounded flights and disrupted hospitals and banks — a different root cause but similar scale of disruption to this Microsoft outage.