Hotmail and Outlook outage affects millions across UK and US
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Affected systems aren’t fully back online yet — with the company noting that it encountered a problem with its initial remedy.
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Is Outlook down again? As the outage stretches into the afternoon, the global community waits for a formal update from Microsoft regarding the Hotmail outage.
Outlook has over 400 million active users around the world. This issue seems to be affecting both personal and work Outlook accounts, as well as Hotmail accounts. Hotmail is also owned by Microsoft. Some users are seeing a message saying that their license is not valid, while others are seeing a message that says, "Something went wrong."
Microsoft has reportedly blocked around 3,000 Outlook and Hotmail accounts linked to North Korea as part of its crackdown against North Korean IT Worker Conspiracy