The Microsoft 365 outage lasted more than 12 hours, affecting users in 74 countries.

Crypto Briefing linked the disruption to reliance on centralized cloud services, saying it highlights the need for businesses to reassess their contingency plans.

· The source only provides the outage duration and the number of affected countries; it does not specify which services were affected or what caused the outage;
· Businesses and individuals who rely on the suite were affected, but the exact scope has not been disclosed.

If your business went offline for half a day, would your backup plan hold up?