Multiple Microsoft 365 Business/Enterprise Services (Like Email) Down on a Global Scale

According to the Microsoft Service Health Status page

• Service Degredation

…’User impact: Users may be unable to connect to multiple Microsoft 365 services.

More info: Features of the Microsoft 365 services below that interact with Exchange Online and email services are impacted. Elements of those services that do not depend on interaction with Exchange Online remain functional.’…

My personal GoDaddy account (that utilizes Microsoft 365) said it this way:

…’Microsoft has identified an issue impacting customers using Microsoft 365 email globally’ (emphasis added)…

This affects system administrators, Cloud based services, security, data loss prevention and of course…email(!) The following services are affected:

Exchange Online

Microsoft 365 admin center

Microsoft 365 apps

Microsoft 365 Apps Admin Center

Microsoft 365 Education

Microsoft Copilot 365

Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Microsoft Defender XDR

Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Graph

Microsoft Intune

Microsoft Planner

Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft To Do

Power BI

SharePoint Online

Universal Print

Windows 365

How many Business/Enterprise businesses depend on Microsoft 365? How many banks and financial institutions? More than most can count. This has been going on since at least mid afternoon earlier today when I encountered this issue. This does not seem like a ‘run of the mill’ type of issue…

Is it a ‘hack’? Is it an act of 5th generation warfare?

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