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Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems

Based on over 20,000 reports, Amazon appears to be experiencing an outage. According to Downdetector, reports of problems started increasing at 1:41 pm ET today. By 2:26 pm, ET, Downdetector received 18,320 reports of problems with Amazon’s website. The number of complaints peaked at 3:32 pm ET at 20,804. There have also been a smaller… Read More: Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems »

Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size

Cloudflare’s proxy service has limits to prevent excessive memory consumption, with the bot management system having “a limit on the number of machine learning features that can be used at runtime.” This limit is 200, well above the actual number of features used. “When the bad file with more than 200 features was propagated to… Read More: Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled… »

It took 48 hours, but the mystery of the mass Asus router outage is solved

Enlarge / Detail of the ethernet ports on an Asus DSL-AC88U router, taken on November 30, 2017. (Photo by Olly Curtis/MacFormat Magazine/Future via Getty Images) reader comments 81 with On Wednesday, Asus router users around the world took to the Internet to report that their devices suddenly froze up for no apparent reason and then,… Read More: It took 48 hours, but the mystery of the mass… »

Users fume after My Cloud network breach locks them out of their data

reader comments 69 with Share this story Users of the Western Digital My Cloud service are fuming after a network breach has locked them out of their data for more than 24 hours and has put company-handled information into the hands of currently unknown hackers. The inability to access data stored in My Cloud was… Read More: Users fume after My Cloud network breach locks them out… »

FuboTV goes kaput during World Cup semifinals, blames “criminal cyber attack”

Getty Images reader comments 15 with 0 posters participating Share this story Sports-focused streaming-video service FuboTV said a “criminal cyber attack” was responsible for a prolonged outage that prevented subscribers from viewing most of Wednesday’s World Cup semifinal between France and Morocco. “The incident was not related to any bandwidth constraints on Fubo’s part,” the… Read More: FuboTV goes kaput during World Cup semifinals, blames “criminal cyber… »

Passengers couldn’t fly after NHS vaccine passport went offline

reader comments 78 with 52 posters participating Share this story England’s COVID Pass system went offline for hours on Wednesday, causing British travelers to remain stranded at airports. Some passengers couldn’t board their flights, while others suffered delays as both the National Health Service (NHS) website and app experienced issues. Delays and missed flights An… Read More: Passengers couldn’t fly after NHS vaccine passport went offline »

Facebook’s outage likely cost the company over $60 million

Getty Images reader comments 52 with 38 posters participating Share this story In a major outage yesterday, Facebook, along with its sibling sites, WhatsApp and Instagram, became unreachable for hours. Real-time website status tracker DownDetector received over 14 million reports from users who couldn’t use the social media giant’s apps and services. But beyond the obvious… Read More: Facebook’s outage likely cost the company over $60 million »