Microsoft says it has resolved Outlook email filter outage that resulted in a deluge of spam

Users of Microsoft's Outlook.com have been flooded with spam and phishing emails over a period of 12 hours. It seems that the message filters for the email service suffered an outage, resulting inboxes being overwhelmed with junk mail. While Microsoft says that the issue has now been addressed, the company has provided very little in the way of explanation for what happened. See also: Windows 11 has a secret WASDK File Explorer app complete with an astounding new image gallery feature Microsoft is massively increasing the cost of using Bing Search APIs Microsoft is adding a useful End Task option… [Continue Reading]