Microsoft Outlook down globally, thousands of users locked out of their accounts

Tens of thousands of users across the globe were locked out of their Microsoft Outlook accounts on Saturday due to a brief outage. The tech giant, however, confirmed that the issue had been resolved, and it was investigating the problem.

In a series of posts on X late Saturday, Microsoft 365, which manages services such as Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint, said, “We’ve identified a potential cause of impact and have reverted the suspected code to alleviate impact.”

“We’re reviewing available telemetry and customer provided logs to understand the impact. We’ve confirmed this issue is impacting various Microsoft 365 services… Our telemetry indicates that a majority of impacted services are recovering following our change. We’ll keep monitoring until the impact has been resolved for all services, ” the tech giant added.