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(Reuters) -Multiple outages hit social media, government and news websites across the globe on Tuesday morning, with some reports pointing to a glitch at U.S.-based cloud computing services ...
An Internet outage or Internet blackout or Internet shutdown is the complete or partial failure of the internet services. It can occur due to censorship, cyberattacks, disasters, [1] police or security services actions [2] or errors. Disruptions of submarine communications cables may cause blackouts or slowdowns to large areas.
A leading internet content delivery service is investigating an outage on its platform which may have caused a worldwide internet issue and taken dozens of major websites offline.
This is a list of Internet exchange points by size, measured by peak data rate , with additional data on location, establishment and average throughput. Generally only exchanges with more than ten gigabits per second peak throughput have been taken into consideration.
January 30 - United States - A major ice storm hit Kansas City, Missouri, knocking trees into power lines and blowing up transformers throughout the city. The outage affected more than 270,000 people. [74] March 12 - Indonesia - A power failure affected 13 million people in South Sumatra and Lampung.
The websites of several major U.S. companies were temporarily down for many users Thursday in a widespread internet outage. The list of companies affected by the outage included Airbnb, Delta Air ...
2021 Facebook outage. Traffic volume for Facebook services on October 4, 2021 with a drop during the global outage. On October 4, 2021, at 15:39 UTC, the social network Facebook and its subsidiaries, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Mapillary, and Oculus, became globally unavailable for a period of six to seven hours.
On October 21, 2016, three consecutive distributed denial-of-service attacks were launched against the Domain Name System (DNS) provider Dyn. The attack caused major Internet platforms and services to be unavailable to large swathes of users in Europe and North America. [3] [4] The groups Anonymous and New World Hackers claimed responsibility ...