Tech giants, Microsoft are currently trying to fix major outages which are causing a huge disruption to some of their most popular services.
This comes after the monitoring website, Downdetector first reported a huge spike in users reporting problems with Microsoft Teams in Ireland and the UK at around 6.15pm yesterday.
They have said that they were not aware of any "malicious activity" with regards to the hours-long disruption of its Outlook services.
In a statement Microsoft said: "As of now, we are not aware of any malicious activity that is causing this incident. We will continue to treat this incident with urgency and priority until full resolution".
In a separate statement they added: "We appreciate your organisation's patience and understanding while we work with urgency to resolve this incident".
Microsoft products in as many as 74 countries and territories have been hit with this outage , with Downdetector also sharing a map with the outage affected users across the Americas and parts of Europe, Asia and Africa.
The effects of this outage were felt across the world, with users including companies and governments claiming that they were unable to communicate via Microsoft Outlook. While the HSE said that they experiences similar issues, with email not being transmitted.
They also reported problems with Microsoft video conferencing facilities, but no services have been affected so far.
Products affected include AI service Copilot, Teams, Outlook emails, as well as parts of its Cloud services.
Microsoft have since said that despite getting servers to operate several times overnight, those servers have crashed.
Elsewhere, Open AI, the company who set up ChatGPT, also reported issues.
"We’re investigating an issue with Microsoft connectors where new connections may be broken and tools are not working as expected", they said in a statement shared via their website. "We’ll share an update when we know more".
Microsoft have reportedly tried several options in order to find a solution to the problem, including isolating parts of the infrastructure and moving traffic to other routes. They have also provided regular updates on official Microsoft 365 accounts
They said: "We’ve monitored the status of the changes applied to improve serviceability and confirmed that change is not taking as expected".
