Microsoft has warned that issues causing major disruption to its email service Outlook could affect users in any region, after tens of thousands of reports of outages.
Outage Reports Surge
Some 40,000 reports of mass outages were first made in the US earlier on Thursday, later rising to more than 150,000. Thousands of users in the UK have also reported problems, including error codes and frozen screens when trying to send an email.
Microsoft Investigating Exchange Online Issues
In a statement on social media, Microsoft said: "We're investigating reports of users experiencing issues accessing Exchange Online mailboxes through multiple connection methods in the Americas."
"While we're working to mitigate impact, we've confirmed the issue may affect Microsoft 365 service connectivity for users in any region," the company added.
