MeitY in touch with Microsoft over outage, says IT Minister; Cert-In issues advisory

Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) is in touch with Microsoft and its associates regarding the global outage. The downtime has impacted numerous businesses and institutions globally including in India. India’s nodal cyber agency, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) has also issued an advisory regarding workarounds to the issue.

“MEITY is in touch with Microsoft and its associates regarding the global outage. The reason for this outage has been identified and updates have been released to resolve the issue,” Vaishnaw said in a post on X.