Microsoft Outlook outage sparks new Black Sky event fears for UK

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A major outage affecting Microsoft services including Outlook emails has drawn parralels to the UK's 'Black Sky event' plans and has sparked a call from preppers to double down…

A major outage affecting Microsoft services including Outlook emails has drawn parralels to the UK's 'Black Sky event' plans and has sparked a call from preppers to double down the need to be ready for more internet cut-offs in future.

Outlook email services have been hit with an outage which also stopped other Microsoft services like Teams from working today. The outage, still ongoing, has stopped police from receiving crime reports and has impacted NHS hospitals and schools across the UK which rely on Microsoft services to run.

GMB Union has claimed the outage has stopped NHS and ambulance trusts from being able to refer patients on their computer systems, sparking a backlog.

The incident, thought to be caused by an issue within Microsoft rather than an attack, has drawn parrallels to the UK's 'Black Sky event' plans, which were thrown back into the spotlight this week, after the BBC revealed it has plans in place which dictate what the national broadcaster will do in case of a full-scale UK emergency in which internet and power is lost for three days or more.

The emergency broadcasting service will have secure lines of communication which are not dependent on internet connections and will have enough water, food and fuel to allow it to operate for three days without any further supplies.

The emergency radio will broadcast what households should do in that situation, including how much food and water people should be drinking and even what to do if water supplies are so disrupted that toilets won’t flush.

Posting on the UK Preppers Reddit community, users pointed to the Microsoft Outlook outage as prime evidence for the need to prepare for a possibility of a life without the internet.

u/budroid said: "This is exactly the kind of event very few people are preparing for. No fires. No riots. No loud explosions. Just a slow but inevitable break in communications. Add Google, Apple, Amazon and a few others and modern infrastructures are off-limits.

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