large tech A significant worldwide disruption in Microsoft’s services has occurred, mostly affecting customers of its Microsoft 365 programme. Users are unable to access a number of Microsoft 365 apps and services due to the outage.
As of 2:00 PM, the company said that it had recovered several of its services, namely Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft OneNote, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, Windows 365, Viva Engage, and Microsoft Purview.
We’re closely monitoring our telemetry data to ensure this upward trend continues as our mitigation actions continue to progress,” the company said in a statement. As a result of the outage, several Indian airlines are experiencing hurdles in several of their workflows, rendering booking, check-in and manage booking services “temporarily unavailable. Airlines facing delays include Akasa Air, Vistara, Indigo, and SpiceJet.
One Indigo passenger who was due to fly from Hyderabad to Kolkata took to X to share that he got a handwritten boarding pass.
large tech A significant worldwide disruption in Microsoft’s services has occurred, mostly affecting customers of its Microsoft 365 programme. Users are unable to access a number of Microsoft 365 apps and services due to the outage.
A recent software update from cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike has been linked to a major global IT outage that caused significant disruptions.
India’s IT watchdog, CERT-In, classified the issue as “critical” and confirmed it stemmed from outages in Crowdstrike’s “Falcon Sensor” agent. This security software update reportedly triggered crashes on user devices, leading to the dreaded “Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)” on Windows machines.
Crowdstrike, a US-based cybersecurity company listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange, offers various security solutions including cloud workload protection, endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response. The company’s founder, George Kurtz, has acknowledged the issue and assured that a fix has already been deployed.
