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\n Keumars Afifi-Sabet<\/a><\/span>
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Azure and Office 365 users were unable to login to their accounts yesterday due to issues with Microsoft\u2019s multi-factor authentication (MFA) service.<\/p>\n

From 4.39am on Monday until later that evening users in the UK and Western Europe, as well as pockets around the world, were unable to access their Office 365 accounts.<\/p>\n

Azure services such as Azure Active Directory was also closed off to users whose organisations enforced mandatory MFA.<\/p>\n

Although Microsoft says its services are now operating as normal, this incident has angered organisations trying to convince their employees of MFA\u2019s benefits, as well as those who have had to contend with similar outages in recent months.<\/p>\n

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Any update would be appreciated. Users are starting to search for their torches and pitchforks.<\/p>\n

— Thomas H. (@Hoelli4C) November 19, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n