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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by massive worldwide outage
2024-12-11 18:52

Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp suffered a massive worldwide Wednesday afternoon, with services impacted in varying degrees based on user's region. [...]

Microsoft 365 outage takes down Office web apps, admin center
2024-12-10 12:47

Microsoft is investigating a widespread and ongoing Microsoft 365 outage impacting Office web apps and the Microsoft 365 admin center. [...]

Microsoft 365 outage impacts Exchange Online, Teams, Sharepoint
2024-11-25 15:55

Microsoft is working on fixing an ongoing and widespread Microsoft 365 outage that is impacting multiple services and features, including Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint Online. [...]

Washington courts grapple with statewide outage after 'unauthorized activity'
2024-11-05 14:29

Justice still being served, but many systems are down A statewide IT outage attributed to "unauthorized activity" is affecting the availability of services provided by all courts in Washington.…

The Playstation Network is down in a global outage
2024-10-01 01:26

The PlayStation Network is suffering a global outage, with subscribers confirming that they can no longer play online games or access the company's website. [...]

Verizon outage: iPhones, Android devices stuck in SOS mode
2024-09-30 15:58

A widespread Verizon outage is causing iPhones and Android devices to enter SOS mode, preventing them from making mobile calls unless they use WiFi calling. [...]

CrowdStrike apologizes to Congress for 'perfect storm' that caused global IT outage
2024-09-25 01:23

Argues worse could happen if it loses kernel access CrowdStrike is "deeply sorry" for the "perfect storm of issues" that saw its faulty software update crash millions of Windows machines, leading...

MoneyGram confirms a cyberattack is behind dayslong outage
2024-09-24 12:48

Money transfer giant MoneyGram has confirmed it suffered a cyberattack after dealing with system outages and customer complaints about lack of service since Friday. [...]

Organizations are changing cybersecurity providers in wake of Crowdstrike outage
2024-09-23 12:33

More often than not, a cyber attack or a cyber incident that results in business disruption will spur organizations to make changes to improve their cybersecurity and cyber resilience – and...

1 in 10 orgs dumping their security vendors after CrowdStrike outage
2024-09-19 16:13

Many left reeling from July's IT meltdown, but not to worry, it was all unavoidable Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) says one in ten organizations in the country affected by...