The Xbox Live service is currently down due to a major outage, impacting customers worldwide and preventing them from signing into their Xbox accounts and playing games.
According to a massive stream of user reports, the online gaming platform has been down for at least three hours, blocking them from playing cloud and offline games that require logging into an Xbox account.
Currently, the Xbox status page indicates that there is an ongoing outage affecting account and profile services.
This disruption is impacting users across various platforms, including cloud gaming, Xbox One consoles, Xbox on Windows, Android devices, Apple devices, and web services, among others.
The Xbox team acknowledged the issue at 14:07 EDT, hours after the first user reports surfaced online.
Downdetector has received tens of thousands of service issue reports since the outage started, with affected gamers saying they can't log into their accounts to play games and reporting server issues.
Xbox experienced a similar widespread outage in May 2022 that impacted multiple services, including Games & gaming, Cloud gaming & remote play, and Store & subscriptions.
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This Cyber News was published on www.bleepingcomputer.com. Publication date: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 20:05:26 +0000