Microsoft Outlook outage disrupts workers in Hong Kong’s financial sector

The temporary outage of Microsoft’s office software Outlook disrupted employees’ work in Hong Kong’s financial sector on Friday morning. After workers found the software was down, some staff had to work offline, according to sources from multiple banks.

Bankers from Goldman Sachs and Nomura said their work had been disrupted, the South China Morning Post learned. “We haven’t been able to send or receive emails since the early hours of this morning, and the problem is still ongoing,” a Nomura...