Outage

Major ISP bungles settings, causing Microsoft 365, Azure outage

updated AT&T confirms 'brief disruption,' no indication of foul play

Networks12 Sep 2024 | 9

'IT failure' hits blood tests as another critical incident declared by NHS

Unlike in London, foul play isn’t suspected

On-Prem11 Sep 2024 | 7

Alibaba Cloud struggles after blaze at Digital Realty Singapore datacenter

Chinese giant claims lithium batteries exploded, now one server hall is waterlogged

PaaS + IaaS10 Sep 2024 | 4

Down and out: Aegon's pension pothole and TfL's mystery 'maintenance'

When is maintenance maintenance, and when is it 'we've been pwned'?

On-Prem10 Sep 2024 | 15

House to grill CrowdStrike exec on epic IT meltdown... no, not the CEO

VP Adam Meyers to testify about that faulty software update which ruined July and some of August

Software02 Sep 2024 | 21

Black horse down: Lloyds online banking services go dark

Updated Customers report inability to view transactions

Off-Prem02 Sep 2024 | 27

AT&T to shell out $950,000 after quad-state 911 outage

Service takes another dive just as settlement is announced

Networks28 Aug 2024 | 7

China's top Office clone copies Microsoft again – with an inconvenient outage

WPS Office took a long lunch on Wednesday, the day after its developer posted big profits

SaaS22 Aug 2024 | 21

B2B ISP Fastnet staggers back to feet after VMware incident

Company continues to investigate root cause

VMware Explore19 Aug 2024 | 8

GitHub rolls back database change after breaking itself

Git blame an infrastructure update

Cloud Infrastructure Month14 Aug 2024 | 14

Stock-trading apps fall under the feet of stampeding panicking investors

They're doing you a favor, probably best not to look today

Applications05 Aug 2024 | 12

'Error' in Microsoft's DDoS defenses amplified 8-hour Azure outage

A playbook full of strategies and someone fumbles the implementation

CSO31 Jul 2024 | 18

Can't get Minecraft, MongoDB Cloud, others to work today? Blame that Azure outage

Shut the Front Door!

PaaS + IaaS30 Jul 2024 | 15

Uncle Sam opens probe into CrowdStrike turbulence at Delta Air Lines

Concerns abound over why it has taken so long to recover compared to competitors

Security24 Jul 2024 | 10

Administrators have update lessons to learn from the CrowdStrike outage

How could this happen to us? We were supposed to be two versions behind?

Security23 Jul 2024 | 34

Failure to follow proper procedures caused US-wide AT&T outage, FCC says

America's second largest wireless carrier taking steps to prevent a repeat of 12-hour downtime in February

Networks23 Jul 2024 | 15

CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes

Updated Rapid restore tool being tested as Microsoft estimates 8.5M machines went down

Security21 Jul 2024 | 84

Life, interrupted: How CrowdStrike's patch failure is messing up the world

Oh, was it supposed to be Y2K24?

Software19 Jul 2024 | 116

Second NHS IT system confirmed to be affected by CrowdStrike issues

Cancer treatments are in jeopardy across multiple healthcare facilities

Software19 Jul 2024 | 34

CrowdStrike shares sink as global IT outage savages systems worldwide

Updated Emergency services, medical practices, airlines, banks, and more all crippled

Software19 Jul 2024 | 285

Microsoft 365 remains 'degraded' as Azure outage resolved

Updated Central US region is back in business but Office apps still in trouble

Off-Prem19 Jul 2024 | 66

Americans abroad cut off as AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US suffer roaming outages

Updated Why all three at once? Blame Syniverse – everyone else is

Networks27 Jun 2024 | 13

FCC slaps Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again

Less than an hour's profit - that sends a strong message for emergency cover

Networks26 Jun 2024 | 9

British Airways blames T5 luggage chaos on fault 'outside of our control'

Exclusive It was Vodafone, basically

Networks26 Jun 2024 | 104

Car dealer software bigshot CDK pulls systems offline twice amid 'cyber incident'

Downtime set to crash into next week

Cyber-crime20 Jun 2024 | 14

Vietnam's internet again in trouble as three of five submarine cables go down

Outages came a day after nation launched giveaway of .VN domains in pursuit of improved digital sovereignty

Public Sector18 Jun 2024 | 11

Japanese vid-sharing site Niconico needs rebuild after cyberattack

Offline for four days and counting, as are parent company and e-commerce brand

Security11 Jun 2024 | 5

Unlucky AT&T subscribers struggle to make calls in multi-hour US outage

If you're wondering why connectivity seems toast at the moment

Networks04 Jun 2024 | 2

NYSE technical error sends stocks tumbling

Updated Exchange said the problem involves limit bands designed to prevent volatility

Software03 Jun 2024 | 13

Wanna curb datacenter outages? Try combating burnout with shorter shifts

If hiring more people to work fewer hours isn't appealing, you could always make a robot do it

On-Prem24 May 2024 | 8

Bing and Copilot fall from the clouds around the world

Final update Alternatively, true AGI has been reached, and the machines decided to delete themselves

Systems23 May 2024 | 42

Google Cloud shows it can break things for lots of customers – not just one at a time

Deleted about 40 networks that services needed, causing late Thursday fun

Off-Prem20 May 2024 | 29

Google Cloud blunder sinks Australian fund for a week

That pesky 'previously unknown software bug' strikes again

PaaS + IaaS08 May 2024 | 11

Sacramento airport goes no-fly after AT&T internet cable snipped

Police say this appears to be a 'deliberate act.'

Cyber-crime19 Apr 2024 | 44

911 goes MIA across multiple US states, cause unclear

Updated Some say various cell services were out, others still say landlines were affected. What just happened?

Networks18 Apr 2024 | 36

US-EAST-1 region is not the cloudy crock it's made out to be, claims AWS EC2 boss

It's the region where stuff gets stressed at scale first, says Dave Brown, as he plots variants of Amazon's Outposts

PaaS + IaaS10 Apr 2024 | 4

Cyberattack hits Omni Hotels systems, taking out bookings, payments, door locks

Updated As WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, other Meta bits plus Apple stuff fall offline today

Security03 Apr 2024 | 18

Datacenter outages are on the decline, but when they hit, they hit hard

Power snafus take limelight in latest downtime diary from Uptime Institute

On-Prem02 Apr 2024 | 3

Tech trade union confirms cyberattack behind IT, email outage

Exclusive Systems have been pulled offline as a precaution

Cyber-crime25 Mar 2024 | 11

McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles

Global meltdown turns fast food slow

Off-Prem15 Mar 2024 | 109

LinkedIn's turn to fall over: Outage hits thinkfluencer hub

Updated What's not to like? At the moment, everything on Microsoft's social network

Personal Tech06 Mar 2024 | 15

World-plus-dog booted out of Facebook, Instagram, Threads

Updated Millions of Meta addicts suddenly cried out in terror and were silenced

Networks05 Mar 2024 | 61

AT&T's apology for Thursday's outage should stretch to a cup of coffee

Check your service level agreements to make sure you'll at least get a slice of cake when your vendor goes down

Networks26 Feb 2024 | 13

X protests forced suspension of accounts on orders of India's government

Nonprofit SFLC links orders to farming protests

Public Sector23 Feb 2024 | 20

Cyberattack downs pharmacies across America

Updated Prescription orders hit after IT supplier Change Healthcare pulls plug on systems

Cyber-crime22 Feb 2024 | 10

Americans wake to widespread AT&T cellular outages

Final update Telco battles to fix busted connectivity as other carriers feel the effects

Networks22 Feb 2024 | 81

Europe's largest caravan club admits wide array of personal data potentially accessed

Experts also put an end to social media security updates

Cyber-crime12 Feb 2024 | 19

Bank boss has pay slashed after presiding over tech outages in 2023

Singapore's DBS wants accountability for digital dropouts

CxO07 Feb 2024 | 4

Snow day in corporate world thanks to another frustrating Microsoft Teams outage

Network rollback fails to resolve issue in Americas as Redmond scrambles to optimize its way out of the problem

SaaS27 Jan 2024 | 35

Major IT outage at Europe's largest caravan and RV club makes for not-so-happy campers

Updated 1 million members still searching for answers as IT issues floor primary digital services

Security24 Jan 2024 | 21

You're so worried about AWS reliability, the cloud giant now lets you simulate major outages

re:Invent Fake it 'til you break it, for a whole availability zone or WAN FAIL

Off-Prem01 Dec 2023 | 9

Black Friday? More like Blackout Friday for HSBC's online and mobile banking

Updated Think of all the crap discounted things you won't need to buy now

Off-Prem24 Nov 2023 | 40

Stop shaming service providers for outages, argues APNIC chief scientist

Tech companies should behave like the aviation industry and detail failures to improve safety for all

Off-Prem24 Nov 2023 | 28

Telco CEO quits after admitting she needs to carry rivals' SIM cards to stay in touch

That, plus an outage, and cyber-mess, do for Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin

Off-Prem21 Nov 2023 | 48

Your online store down? Can't get to your fave web shop? Maybe blame Shopify

Biz races to fix broken systems

Personal Tech13 Nov 2023 | 11

OpenAI tackles 'major outage' hitting ChatGPT APIs

Final update Meltdown apparently resolved, capacity issues still popping up, as Claude hits a resource wall

AI + ML08 Nov 2023 | 5