 which tracks user-reported disruptions to the internet, recorded that many services across the world have been affected by the outage, although the disruption appeared piecemeal and was apparently related to whether the companies use Microsoft cloud-based services. Cyber expert James Boer told the AP real harm would be caused by the outage because systems we've come to rely on at critical times are not going to be available. We've got all of these critical systems, we've got obviously