Is Outlook down again? As the outage stretches into the afternoon, the global community waits for a formal update from Microsoft regarding the Hotmail outage.

If you're having trouble logging into your Hotmail account today, you're definitely not the only one. Millions of users around the world have been facing issues with Microsoft's email service since early Thursday morning,

Outlook has over 400 million active users around the world. This issue seems to be affecting both personal and work Outlook accounts, as well as Hotmail accounts. Hotmail is also owned by Microsoft. Some users are seeing a message saying that their license is not valid, while others are seeing a message that says, "Something went wrong."

Hotmail was the land of burner accounts for people setting up fake dating profiles. As a pioneer in HTML email, Hotmail users were a natural target for emerging phishing and drive-by download attacks.

A statement has been issued by Microsoft after millions of users have found themselves unable to use Outlook services today.