Microsoft confirms no 'malicious activity’ in widespread outage of Outlook

Microsoft said on Friday there is “no evidence of malicious activity” related to the global disruption of its Outlook email service and other Office 365 apps.

“At this time, we have no evidence of malicious activity associated with this incident,” the technology company said at 6:11 a.m. “We will continue to treat this with urgency until full mitigation, and we will share a full Post-Incident Report with root cause and defense-in-depth actions after mitigation is complete.”