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Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks work by directing high volumes of internet traffic towards targeted servers in a relatively unsophisticated bid to knock them offline
Numerous Microsoft services and products, including Outlook, Teams, Azure, and Xbox Live, are down for many users on Wednesday.
Microsoft said Wednesday's early morning outage, which affected Microsoft 365 services across multiple countries, was due to a WAN routing change.
Microsoft Teams, Outlook suffer a major outage worldwide
The problems began at 07:00 GMT (02:00 ET) and Downdetector.com, which tracks website outages, showed that more than 5,000 people in the UK reported that they couldn't get into their emails.