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Microsoft’s global outage has disrupted access to services, but Euronews says the company has reported no sign of a cyberattack and no indication that customer data was exposed or lost. An outage can cut off access without meaning someone else has gained it.

There are still practical wrinkles: Microsoft’s Defender XDR security tool was among the affected services, and delayed emails may arrive later. Euronews advises checking that important messages sent during the disruption were received, and treating unexpected login or password-reset requests with suspicion. The inbox is down; that does not make every urgent-looking email trustworthy.

Discuss: Should cloud providers be expected to publish a clear account of data exposure after every major outage, even when there is no evidence of a breach?

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