Microsoft suffers authentication outage

[Becky]

Many users of Outlook, Hotmail, Xbox Online and Skype have found themselves locked out of their accounts today, as a result of an 'authentication outage' at Microsoft. The error caused passwords to be rejected or users to be told their account simply did not exist. The Inquirer has more:

DownDetector is showing an increasingly unusual number of reports around the Office 365 ecosystem from around midday UK time rising to a peak around 2pm.

Here at the INQUIRER, we found our accounts bounced back to life at around 2pm, but the outage appears to be persisting for many.

Naturally, users of Microsoft's cloud services have taken to Twitter and Reddit to moan about the downtime, with some complaining that Xbox online services have also been hit by the downtime.

Read more here.

 

[TriplexDread]

Yeaha having that problem trying to log in via my iphone. Tells me 'service not available' and to keep trying

 

[muckshifter]

I don't use Microsoft ... oh wait!

 

[bootneck02]

And I definitely do NOT use Microsoft.