Microsoft restores services worldwide following a major outage that disrupted Outlook, Teams and Copilot across at least 74 countries, while warning users of phishing scams exploiting the incident

WASHINGTON: Tech giant Microsoft said Saturday it has “restored service” to customers, effectively drawing a close to a massive outage that caused chaos and disrupted public services and business around the world.

“We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions,” the US-based company said in an X post.

Microsoft had already reported a “broad recovery” for Outlook email and other services the day before, stating the major disruption was due to a technical issue and “not related to cyber or AI/agents.”