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Maple Leaf Foods suffers outage following weekend cyberattack
2022-11-07 17:59

Maple Leaf Foods confirmed on Sunday that it experienced a cybersecurity incident causing a system outage and disruption of operations.Maple Leaf Foods is Canada's largest prepared meats and poultry food producer, operating 21 manufacturing facilities, employing 14,000 people, and contracting over 700 barns.

Instagram confirms outage following stream of user suspensions
2022-10-31 15:14

Instagram users are currently experiencing issues signing into their accounts, some being notified that their accounts have been suspended. The social media platform says it's currently investigating these reports and confirmed that some users might have issues logging into their accounts.

Instagram confirms outage following stream of users suspensions
2022-10-31 15:14

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Largest EU copper producer Aurubis suffers cyberattack, IT outage
2022-10-28 17:16

German copper producer Aurubis has announced that it suffered a cyberattack that forced it to shut down IT systems to prevent the attack's spread. Aurubis is Europe's largest copper producer and the second largest in the world, with 6,900 employees worldwide, and produces one million tonnes of copper cathodes yearly. In an announcement published on their website, Aurubis says they shut down various systems at their locations but that it has not impacted production.

Zscaler outage causing heavy packet loss, connectivity issues
2022-10-25 14:10

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Wholesale giant METRO hit by IT outage after cyberattack
2022-10-21 17:27

International wholesale giant METRO is experiencing infrastructure outages and store payment issues following a recent cyberattack. Even though its stores are still operating, METRO says that it was forced to set up offline payment systems and that online orders are delayed.

Chase UK's app-only bank hit with 24-hour ongoing outage
2022-10-05 17:59

The major outage began around Monday evening but has continued well into today with Chase reporting some customers facing degraded performance while others seeing improvement. Chase UK's customers with a mobile-based current account have been experiencing an ongoing outage and degraded performance with the bank's app, making it difficult for them to access their accounts and funds.

YouTube down: Live streams hit by worldwide outage
2022-09-23 17:16

YouTube is currently experiencing a worldwide outage, with thousands of reports saying they cannot access live streams. While the company has yet to acknowledge the issue, user reports shared on DownDetector show that most of those affected by this ongoing outage have problems with video streaming and accessing the YouTube website.

YouTube outage: Live streams down for many around the world
2022-09-23 17:16

YouTube is currently experiencing a worldwide outage, with thousands of reports saying they cannot access live streams. While the company has yet to acknowledge the issue, user reports shared on DownDetector show that most of those affected by this ongoing outage have problems with video streaming and accessing the YouTube website.

Zoom outage left users unable to sign in or join meetings
2022-09-15 15:35

The Zoom video conference platform was down and experienced an outage preventing users from logging in or joining meetings. According to an incident posted on Zoom's service status page, the company confirmed issues starting and joining meetings and video sessions.