Microsoft Outage | Microsoft Crash Hits Airline Operations, Austalian & Japanese Govts Impacted

Australia's spy agency and federal police were among the organisations caught up in a widespread outage of Microsoft programmes on Friday (November 13), with the government triggering an agreement with the company to ensure priority restoration of services. The disruption affected Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams and other apps, leaving users around the world unable to access services for several hours. At a news conference, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Director-General Mike Burgess and Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett confirmed their organisations had been impacted by the outage. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said he had spoken to Microsoft, who said they did not believe the outage was a result of a cyber attack and added the government has activated an agreement with the software company to ensure Australia gets prioritised in restoration works