Outlook.com suffers downtime, but status page says otherwise

The Redmond, Wash.-based technology giant said on Twitter it is currently "aware of the issue," but did not detail what was causing the downtime. In another tweet, it was noted that it was not clear how long it would take to restore services but that "hacking is not suspected."

The Outlook.com issue comes only three days after the software company suffered an embarrassing outage to its Windows Azure storage service, caused by an expired security certificate.