A global outage affecting Microsoft products including email service Outlook and video game Minecraft has been resolved, the technology giant said in an update, external.
The firm said preliminary investigations show the outage was caused by a cyber-attack and a failure to properly defend against it. Earlier, the company issued an apology for the incident, which lasted almost 10 hours and caused thousands of users to report issues with Microsoft services.
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Source: BBC News
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