Microsoft’s global outage was not caused by a cybersecurity breach, a Microsoft executive confirmed Thursday.
“We will continue to share more information as we have it, and at this time I can confirm that there is no indication that this is the result of malicious or cyber activity,” Charles Lamanna, executive vice president of Copilot, Agents and Platform at Microsoft, said in an article on X.
Earlier, Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said the company had told him it “does not believe it is dealing with a cyberattack.”
“They think they’re dealing in some ways with the same thing as what we saw with CrowdStrike, where there’s an update gone wrong,” Burke added at a news conference in Sydney.
Burke was referring to cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike’s 2024 software glitch that crashed computers, canceled flights and disrupted hospitals around the world, causing billions of dollars in losses.
Australia’s intelligence agency and federal police were among the organizations affected by Microsoft’s outage on Friday local time.
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