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flag On October 9, 2025, a Microsoft authentication failure caused global outages across Teams, Azure, and other services, disrupting users worldwide.

flag On October 9, 2025, a global outage disrupted major Microsoft services including Teams, Microsoft 365, Azure, and Minecraft, affecting users worldwide. flag The issue stemmed from a failure in Microsoft’s authentication systems, particularly the Entra single sign-on platform and Multi-Factor Authentication, causing widespread login problems and error messages. flag Significant capacity loss across 21 Azure Front Door environments in Europe and Africa was linked to load balancing infrastructure failures, triggering cascading outages. flag Microsoft confirmed it was actively investigating, restoring services through failover procedures and infrastructure rebalancing. flag While approximately 98% of the Azure Front Door service was restored, some users continued to experience intermittent issues. flag The incident is part of a pattern of recurring reliability concerns with Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure, impacting businesses, students, and gamers.

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