PDQ incident
Verification emails not being received for anyone with Outlook
PDQ experienced a major incident on January 22, 2026 affecting Auth, lasting 17h 1m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Auth
Update timeline
- identified Jan 22, 2026, 09:04 PM UTC
Verification emails are not being sent. Correction: verification emails are being sent, but anyone with Outlook will not receive them. See https://status.cloud.microsoft/m365/
- identified Jan 22, 2026, 09:07 PM UTC
Update: this appears to affect anyone who uses Outlook. https://status.cloud.microsoft/
- resolved Jan 23, 2026, 02:06 PM UTC
Microsoft reports that this issue has been resolved.