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Kia Motors America experiences massive IT outage across the US
2021-02-16 19:24

Kia Motors USA is experiencing a nationwide outage affecting IT servers, self-payment phone services, dealer platforms, and phone support. The outage started Saturday when the Kia Owners Portal went offline and began displaying an error message stating that Kia was "Experiencing an IT service outage that has impacted some internal networks."

SpamCop anti-spam service suffers an outage after its domain expired
2021-01-31 23:29

Cisco's SpamCop anti-spam service suffered an outage Sunday after its domain was mistakenly allowed to expire. SpamCop provides a Real-time Blackhole List that mail servers can use to determine if incoming mail should be considered spam.

Most network outages exceed $1 million in damages
2021-01-28 04:30

The report reveals a disruptive year of workforce transformation forced by the COVID-19 shutdowns during which respondents also handled expensive fallouts from network outages and data breaches. The majority of network outages exceeds $1 million in damages: 60% of network outages cost at least $1 million in operational disruptions, reputational damage, lost data, and financial losses.

Verizon Fios fiber cut causes Internet outage in Northeastern US
2021-01-26 17:11

Verizon Fios is experiencing an Internet outage making it impossible to access many websites after a fiber connection was cut in Brooklyn. Starting at approximately 11:00 AM EST, Verizon Fios users found they were no longer able to access popular services, such as Google, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Azure, and even Verizon's own website and My verizon app to check for known outages.

Verizon Fios Internet outage affecting Northeastern US
2021-01-26 17:11

Verizon Fios is experiencing an Internet outage making it impossible to access many websites after a fiber connection was cut in Brooklyn. Starting at approximately 11:00 AM EST, Verizon Fios users found they were no longer able to access popular services, such as Google, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Azure, and even Verizon's own website and My verizon app to check for known outages.

Slack Outage Causing Enterprise Security Hiccups
2021-01-04 16:02

Business communications platform Slack is scrambling to recover from an ongoing outage that is proving disruptive to cybersecurity response teams around the world. At 7:15AM PST, the San Francisco, Calif.-based Slack confirmed users were "Having trouble loading channels or connecting to Slack." No other details were provided on the cause of the outage.

Slack suffers its first massive outage of 2021
2021-01-04 10:55

1/4/. As everyone gets back to work after the New Year holiday, Slack brings in 2021 with a massive outage affecting users worldwide. Starting at approximately 10 AM EST, Slack suffered an outage where users cannot connect, messages cannot be sent and received, and channel history cannot be retrieved.

Apple iCloud outage prevents device activations, access to data
2020-12-26 11:23

Apple users are experiencing problems setting up new devices or accessing files stored on the cloud due to an ongoing iCloud outage that has lasted for more than 24 hours. Starting yesterday at 4:45 AM EST, Apple has been experiencing an outage with its iCloud service that prevents users from logging into the service, accessing files, or setting up new devices.

Google Issues Post Mortem on Gmail, YouTube Outage
2020-12-21 15:14

Google has blamed a bug in its global authentication system for last week's outage that affected Gmail, Calendar, YouTube, Meet and multiple other Google services. The 47-minute outage last Monday, which severely affected operations at workplaces and schools globally, was caused by a bug in an automated quota management system that powers the Google User ID Service.

Google explains the cause of the recent YouTube, Gmail outage
2020-12-19 11:30

As a direct result, users weren't able to access Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Calendar, and several other Google services for almost an hour on Monday, December 14th. During the outage, users could not send emails via Gmail mobile apps or receive email via POP3 for desktop clients, while YouTube visitors were seeing error messages stating that "There was a problem with the server - Tap to retry." "The majority of authenticated services experienced similar control plane impact: elevated error rates across all Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace APIs and Consoles."