Microsoft email services Outlook and Hotmail were down Thursday morning as thousands of users reported outages. Downdetector data showed outage reports began climbing early Thursday morning, spiking to over 2,700 reports by 11 a.m. Does anyone know if Microsoft outlook is down?! I can’t check my outlook email.

Microsoft Outlook customers across the globe are currently facing a widespread blackout, with both web and app users reportedly affected, and no clarity as yet from the email provider

Is Outlook down again? As the outage stretches into the afternoon, the global community waits for a formal update from Microsoft regarding the Hotmail outage.

At almost 0700 UTC, it perhaps optimistically added: "Our deployment of the fix is progressing quicker than anticipated and we expect impact to gradually mitigate as it progresses. We believe the issue will be resolved by our next update time."

Microsoft has suspended 3000 Outlook and Hotmail accounts tied to a North Korean scheme involving DPRK nationals posing as remote workers under false identities. U.S. officials have long warned that North Korea uses illicit earnings from crypto hacks,