Judge allows Delta's lawsuit against CrowdStrike to proceed with millions in damages on the line CS remains hopeful damages will be limited to seven figures Security21 May 2025 | 5
European customers report Oracle Cloud identity outage, Big Red is silent DownDetector reported problems for about 6 hours PaaS + IaaS19 May 2025 | 17
Human error and power glitches to blame for most outages Blackouts less frequent in 2024, still a PITA when the datacenter downtime demons visit AI Infrastructure Month07 May 2025 | 8
Daddy of a mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for about 90 minutes Manager of the .us namespace managed to block zoom.us Networks17 Apr 2025 | 17
Google Cloud’s so-called uninterruptible power supplies caused a six-hour interruption When the power went out, they didn’t switch on Off-Prem15 Apr 2025 | 29
M365 Family users wake up to notice 'Your subscription expired' Final update License to freak out? El Reg reader recommends reverting to pen, paper, pub SaaS10 Apr 2025 | 87
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
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