Outage

Datacenters near Heathrow seemingly stay up as substation fire closes airport

Power outage means no flights for 24 hours. And chaos. Lots of chaos

Disaster Recovery Week21 Mar 2025 | 282

Oops, they did it again: Microsoft breaks Outlook with another dubious update

Updated Testing? We've heard of it

Applications20 Mar 2025 | 57

'Once in a lifetime' IT outage at city council hit datacenter, but no files lost

Services still down and out, but techies working for local government saved the day

On-Prem19 Mar 2025 | 57

As Chromecast outage drags on, fix could be days to weeks away

Updated Google apologizes but won’t say what went wrong nor when it will make things right

Personal Tech13 Mar 2025 | 41

No peace for Gandi this past weekend, after storage SNAFU breaks email and more

Oh, and Musk blames ‘Ukraine area’ for X downtime

Storage11 Mar 2025 | 21

Oracle outage hits US Federal health records systems

Big Red pushes restart button after users locked out of apps across Veterans Affairs hospitals, other govt departments

Databases07 Mar 2025 | 16

Microsoft blames Outlook's wobbly weekend on 'problematic code change'

And Monday's not looking that steady, either

SaaS03 Mar 2025 | 27

Payday from hell as several British banks report major outages

Many can't access online banking although customers can keep tapping away in shops

Off-Prem28 Feb 2025 | 97

Yes, Slack isn't working properly right now – enjoy your internet snow day

Final update Chat app chaps slapped, rapped for leaving yakkity-yakkers in a flap

SaaS26 Feb 2025 | 9

Microsoft Azure faceplants in Norway, taking government services with it

Locals see red as public cloud's service health dashboard shows green

PaaS + IaaS20 Feb 2025 | 15

Cloudflare hopes to rebuild the Web for the AI age - with itself in the middle

Also claims it’s found DeepSeek-eque optimizations that reduce AI infrastructure requirements

Networks10 Feb 2025 | 10

Atlassian's Bitbucket Cloud went down 'hard' today

Same, Big A, same

SaaS21 Jan 2025 | 11

Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall

Third-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds

Personal Tech17 Jan 2025 | 40

Azure, Microsoft 365 MFA outage locks out users across regions

It's fixed, mostly, after Europeans had a manic Monday

Security13 Jan 2025 | 10

Azure networking snafu enters day 2, some services still limping

Struggling to connect to the cloud? You’re not alone

Off-Prem10 Jan 2025 | 19

Garmin Connect outage leaves folks unable to share their fitness virtue signaling

RUN/STOP

Personal Tech08 Jan 2025 | 20

Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did

Opinion 2024's Tech Fail Roll Of Dishonor

Bootnotes01 Jan 2025 | 116

Technical issue briefly grounds American Airlines flights across US

Unspecified "vendor technology" to blame for hour-long stop order

Software24 Dec 2024 | 20

Facebook, Threads, WhatsApp, Instagram stumble on and offline in global outage

Updated What's an influencer to do?

Personal Tech11 Dec 2024 | 30

Mystery border control outage causes misery at Malaysia/Singapore frontier

If this were a US scandal, we'd cal it 'Gategate'

On-Prem10 Dec 2024 | 2

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory datacenter flooded, offline until 2025

Burst water pipe blots out the Sun – or at least the data about it collected from two probes

On-Prem03 Dec 2024 | 18

NHS major 'cyber incident' forces hospitals to use pen and paper

Systems are isolated and pulled offline, while scheduled procedures are canceled

Cyber-crime28 Nov 2024 | 56

API error knocks PayPal, Venmo offline around the globe

It's fixed now, but aside from an error with the Braintree GraphQL API it's not clear what happened

Applications21 Nov 2024 | 3

Pakistan's tech lobby warns that slow internet is strangling IT industry

Low-priced freelancers and call centers are at risk

Channel21 Nov 2024 | 12

'Cybersecurity issue' at Food Lion parent blamed for US grocery mayhem

Stores still open, but customers report delayed deliveries, invoicing issues, and more at Stop & Shop and others

Cyber-crime12 Nov 2024 | 2

Verizon wobbles on the East Coast, outage cuts off night owls

T-Mobile US and Comcast also stutter slightly

Networks12 Nov 2024 | 4

Washington courts grapple with statewide outage after 'unauthorized activity'

Justice still being served, but many systems are down

Security05 Nov 2024 | 1

Financial institutions told to get their house in order before the next CrowdStrike strikes

Calls for improvements will soon turn into demands when new rules come into force

Security02 Nov 2024 | 29

Delta officially launches lawyers at $500M CrowdStrike problem

Legal action comes months after alleging negligence by Falcon vendor

Cybersecurity Month28 Oct 2024 | 23

Google Cloud burst by 12-hour power outage in German region

Loose juice led to cooling issue in one zone, but the pain was widespread

Off-Prem25 Oct 2024 | 26

Microsoft admits Outlook crashes, says impact 'mitigated'

Users just need to 'refresh/restart' their sessions

Software10 Oct 2024 | 61

Bank of America app glitch zeroes out people's balances

Updated Unidentified tech issues now resolved

Personal Tech02 Oct 2024 | 37

Verizon outages across US as hurricane recovery continues

Final update California, Arizona, beyond affected as well as storm-smashed states

Networks30 Sep 2024 | 15

ServiceNow root certificate blunder leaves users high and dry

Updated More like ServiceNo, or maybe ServiceNotforawhile

Software23 Sep 2024 | 13

1 in 10 orgs dumping their security vendors after CrowdStrike outage

Many left reeling from July's IT meltdown, but not to worry, it was all unavoidable

Security19 Sep 2024 | 8

Post-CrowdStrike catastrophe, Microsoft figures moving antivirus out of Windows kernel mode is a good idea

Existing low-level access for security solutions will undergo a rework

OSes13 Sep 2024 | 39

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 | 117

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