PUTRAJAYA, Nov 13 (Bernama) -- The government is assessing the impact of the global Microsoft 365 service disruption on the operations of each ministry and department, MADANI Government spokesman Datuk Seri Fahmi Fadzil said.
The Communications Minister said the National Cyber Security Agency (NACSA) was currently compiling a full and detailed report on the disruption.
“As of this morning, I was waiting for NACSA to provide an update on the incident. It is understood to be global in nature, affecting not just one country or region, but having a significant impact.
“So far, we have not been informed which ministries or departments have been affected by their use of Microsoft's cloud storage and cloud-based applications,” he told a press conference after the Cabinet meeting here today.
NACSA said today that the Microsoft 365 service disruption, which had the potential to affect users worldwide, including in Malaysia, was confirmed to have been caused by a technical issue and not a cyberattack.
According to NACSA, the disruption affected several key applications, namely Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Defender XDR.
Microsoft said on Thursday that the Microsoft 365 service disruption in several regions was caused by a number of servers suddenly becoming unresponsive, rather than an increase in user traffic.
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