A worldwide Microsoft Outlook outage left some users in the Savannah area unable to access the service for as long as 16 hours through Friday morning, disrupting business, government operations and schoolwork. Outlook service has been restored locally, but Savannah and the Savannah-Chatham County school system said they are working to recover data that may have been lost.
Students also had trouble accessing assignments and group projects on Microsoft services. Memorial Hospital and the Chatham Emergency Management Agency were less affected because they use different systems.
Hours after the Outlook disruption, Clearwave Fiber experienced a separate outage that affected many of its 15,000 customers around Savannah. Gmail was unavailable for about an hour. Joel Gulick suggested Gmail’s interruption could be connected to the Outlook outage, but the cause was not established.
Microsoft said it had no evidence of malicious intent behind the Outlook outage.
By News Now Georgia
Yolonda Harris
News Now Georgia
