Microsoft outage impacts Bing, Copilot, ChatGPT internet search and other sites

A number of Microsoft providers together with Bing and Copilot, together with ChatGPT web search and DuckDuckGo are down in Europe, Bleeping Computer reported. Bing.com and Copilot return clean pages and 429 errors, whereas DuckDuckGo merely states: “There was an error displaying the search outcomes. Please try again.“

On its @MSFT365Status X page, Microsoft acknowledged that “We’re investigating a problem the place customers could also be unable to entry the Microsoft Copilot service. We’re working to isolate the reason for the problem. Extra info will be discovered within the admin heart underneath CP795190.” OpenAI additionally confirmed the issue and mentioned it is investigating.

Each ChatGPT web search (obtainable to Plus or company customers) and DuckDuckGo depend on the Bing API, therefore why these websites are down as properly. The outage seems to have began at round 3AM ET immediately (Might 23).

Microsoft was clobbered by one other outage in January, when Teams went down throughout North and South America. The corporate was additionally hit by an enormous breach that very same month, with a US authorities evaluate board calling Microsoft’s safety tradition “insufficient” and in want of an overhaul.