Rough start to the year for communication platform Slack, which is in the process of being acquired by CRM giant Salesforce
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Facebook, WhatsApp And Messenger Services Crash In Europe
Significant outage for a number of Facebook services including Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram on Thursday for thousands of users
Twitter Blames Internal Change For Outage
Inadvertent change to internal systems knocks micro-blogging platform Twitter offline for over several hours on Thursday evening
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TSB Suffers Another Online Banking Outage
Hundreds of customers of British bank TSB were reportedly unable to access their online banking and mobile apps services on Wednesday
TSB Staff Fired Over Compensation Claims For IT Meltdown
Five TSB workers fired for allegedly gaming the compensation system set up after the bank’s epic IT meltdown in early 2018
Facebook Suffers Outage On Thanksgiving
Outage across Facebook and Instagram services during peak time on the US thanksgiving holiday, but services are now restored
RBS Natwest Websites Suffer Outage
Websites for RBS and Natwest suffer outage from 9am on Tuesday and problems are ongoing
Sainsbury’s Bank Customers Locked Out Of Accounts – Report
Banking outage sees customers locked out of their accounts on Tuesday, but services are now recovered
TSB Hires New Transformation Boss After Epic IT Failure
Poisoned chalice? Mark Curran “looking forward” to be responsible for IT restructuring at bank
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram Users Suffer Brief Outage
Thousands of users around the world affected by brief outage of Facebook owned social services
Welsh NHS Computers Back Online After IT Outage
Chaos for doctors and nurses in Wales this week, as IT failure hits at least half of GP services
Barts NHS Suffers Another IT Outage Due To Cyber Attack That’s Spreading Across London Hospitals
SOURCES: The cyber attack looks to be ransomware based
IT Glitch Grounds British Airways Check-In System
A major system crash caused the airline lengthy delays and forced it to return to a manual check-in process.