The CenturyLink outage caused a major, global Internet breakdown this past weekend. Following a widespread assumption that a massive cyberattack took down the Internet on Sunday, an American multinational telecom company CenturyLink acknowledged its role in the global Internet shutdown. Global Internet shutdown causes panic The CenturyLink outage briefly took […]
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CenturyLink outage took out 3.5% of global internet traffic Sunday
A giant internet outage, due to an issue at major telecommunications company CenturyLink, wiped out 3.5% of global internet traffic on Sunday. The outage affected web giants including Amazon and Hulu as well as individual internet users. The outage began at 6 a.m. Eastern and ended around 11 a.m. Eastern. […]
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Major outage leads to dozens of websites and apps down, including Hulu, PlayStation
CenturyLink, an internet service provider that is supposed to keep websites up and running, was down itself for much of Sunday morning. That meant Cloudflare, Hulu, the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Feedly, Discord, and dozens of other services reported connectivity problems Sunday morning. When Cloudflare went down, it took dozens of […]
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Dozens of websites and apps go down during major internet outage
CenturyLink, an internet service provider that is supposed to keep websites up and running, was down itself for much of Sunday morning. That meant Cloudflare, Hulu, the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Feedly, Discord, and dozens of other services reported connectivity problems Sunday morning. When Cloudflare went down, it took dozens of […]
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Chess Olympiad ends with joint winners after internet outage
India and Russia have both been awarded gold at the Chess Olympiad after a major internet outage left two Indian players unable to compete in the finals. © Getty India were forfeited after running out of time – but subsequently lodged a successful appeal. File pic The Chess Olympiad takes place […]
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Major internet outage: Dozens of websites and apps were down
CenturyLink, an internet service provider that is supposed to keep websites up and running, was down itself for much of Sunday morning. That meant Cloudflare, Hulu, the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Feedly, Discord, and dozens of other services reported connectivity problems Sunday morning. When Cloudflare went down, it took dozens […]
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Telecommunications services restored in 7 Sask. communities after 3-day outage
After going three full days without cellular, landline and internet access, seven communities in central Saskatchewan saw those services restored overnight. In an update Wednesday morning, SaskTel said all telecommunications services are back online in Mildred, Chitek Lake, Leoville, Shell Lake, Witchekan Lake, Rabbit Lake and Belbutte. However, SaskTel spokesperson […]
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Manx Telecom broadband outage affects 4,000
© BBC About 4,000 customers have been without broadband since Monday evening A network problem at Manx Telecom has left about 4,000 homes and businesses on the Isle of Man without internet access for almost two days. Benefit and pension payments using the government’s MiCard service have been disrupted as […]