The outage, presumably with company’s DNS services, left Brits without access to sites like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, PayPal, eBay among others.
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Western Digital fixes My Cloud outage; will restore Mionet on April 7
Western Digital has fixed a week long My Cloud outage that prevented its customers from accessing their cloud storage while they were away from their home network. WD Customers started reporting about…
Microsoft gifts 7-day free Xbox Live Gold subscription to those affected by March 11 outage
Microsoft has announced that Xbox Live Gold users impacted by March 11 downtime will be gifted a 7-day subscription. According to IGN, the company is notifying affected users via Xbox Live Messages…
WhatsApp’s single day high and low: 64bn messages processed followed by service outage
WhatsApp’s service is like a wave cycle with crests equaling claims of 64 billion messages processed in a single day and trough equaling service outage in the same day itself. “new daily…
EE restores full service after 13 hours network outage
UK mobile operator EE had fixed a massive signal outage that started from 6:30 pm on Wednesday, affecting users in a number of locations across the country. Thirteen hours after EE first…
Twitter was down because of unexpected complications during planned deploy
Update Here is what Twitter has to say about the downtime: “During a planned deploy in one of our core services, we experienced unexpected complications that made Twitter unavailable for many users…
Xbox Live downtime gatecrashes Titanfall launch
Microsoft may have done all it could to ensure that Titanfall’s launch doesn’t suffer from the same issues as faced by other online multiplayer launcher like Grand Theft Auto Online, Call of…
The Pirate Bay facing intermittent downtimes since two weeks
The Pirate Bay has been at the pinnacle of Torrent sites for quite some time now and every time the site goes down for a few minutes or hours, BitTorrent users across…
BlackBerry users affected by outages in Canada, APAC
BlackBerry has confirmed that outage is affected some of its users in Canada as well as some countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The outage seems to be affecting only legacy or pre-BB10…
Soon to be Facebook owned messaging service, WhatsApp goes down for hours
WhatsApp, the messaging app for which Facebook is shelling out a whopping $19 billion, went down for hours just days after the acquisition. WhatsApp acknowledged the outage through a tweet, which was…
Estimated 37,000 Sky customers in London without broadband, phone following BT outage
An estimated 37,000 Sky customers in London are facing a three day broadband and phone outage after suspected thieves cut through crucial fibre-optic cables in search for copper. BT lines went down…