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A widespread Microsoft service disruption on Thursday left businesses and government agencies unable to access critical services. The outage occurred while the company is in the midst of significant workforce reductions, even as it continues to invest billions of dollars in artificial intelligence.
A Microsoft 365 outage lasting more than 22 hours disrupted Outlook and other services for roughly 430 million users worldwide, with impacts reported in over 70 countries. Microsoft said the cause was routine automated checks that took servers offline and overloaded remaining ones, not a cyber-attack, and has since apologised. Affected organisations included the US House of Representatives, Australian intelligence agencies, Singapore's courts and Indian airline support desks.
A widespread Microsoft service disruption left hundreds of thousands of users unable to access Outlook, Teams and related tools. Businesses and government agencies reported being affected as the outage spread across regions.
Microsoft reports ongoing recovery from a widespread Outlook/Microsoft 365 outage, with Europe and North America improving while Japan remains relatively stable. The company says some users may still face intermittent issues as it works to clear email backlogs, and has kept a 48-hour email timeout window in place to prevent delayed messages from being lost.
GitHub experienced a service outage starting around 2:10 PM ET on October 30, 2026, affecting users trying to access the platform. By 4:01 PM ET, GitHub's status page confirmed the affected services had been restored and were functioning normally.
Revolut customers reported being unable to access the banking app on the morning of the outage. The company acknowledged the issue, said it had been working since it was identified to resolve it, and apologised to affected users for the inconvenience.
OpenAI confirmed elevated error rates across ChatGPT, Codex, and its APIs, including the Agents API, starting around 2:00 PM ET. The company says affected users may see failed requests, login problems, or incomplete tasks, and it is investigating the cause with no confirmed timeline for a fix.