Microsoft confirms major outage disrupting Outlook, Teams and Microsoft 365 for tens of thousands of users nationwide.

Around 2 p.m., over 12,000 users reported outages across Microsoft 365, Outlook and Teams. In a social media post, Microsoft said it was investigating.

Microsoft 365 services, including the communication platforms Microsoft Teams and Outlook, are currently disrupted across North America, the software company said. Some users are encountering “degraded service functionality” while others may be entirely unable to access the services,

We’re investigating a potential issue impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook, Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Purview,” Microsoft said on X. Around 3 p.m., nearly 16,000 users reported problems with Microsoft 365,

"Users may be seeing degraded service functionality or be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services," an update on Microsoft's status page reads. Microsoft has now released a more detailed statement on the issue,

Breaking: Microsoft is investigating a widespread outage affecting Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook and Teams. Thousands of users are reporting access issues as the company works to restore service.

The company blamed "service infrastructure in the North America region" that wasn't "processing traffic as expected" for users of its hugely popular services

"Users may be seeing degraded service functionality or be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services," the company wrote on its 365 status page. Microsoft users reported being unable to send or receive email through Outlook,