Disruption of Freeview television services across the United Kingdom this week blamed on high pressure weather conditions
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Facebook Suffers Outage On Thanksgiving
Outage across Facebook and Instagram services during peak time on the US thanksgiving holiday, but services are now restored
Twitter Slowly Recovers After Global Outage
Global outage “just about fixed” but problems are still ongoing after significant disruption
Wikipedia Website Knocked Offline By DDoS Attack
Outage for Wikipedia website last week after DDoS attack on the online encyclopaedia
Yahoo Mail Outage Impacts BT, Sky, TalkTalk Customers
Problems at Yahoo’s global emailing service has impacted British customers at Sky, BT and TalkTalk
RBS Natwest Websites Suffer Outage
Websites for RBS and Natwest suffer outage from 9am on Tuesday and problems are ongoing
British Airways IT Failure Results In Travel Chaos
Passengers face flight delays and long queues after IT failure during peak summer holiday period
Galileo Satellite Navigation System Suffers Major Outage
Disruption means receivers are not picking up usable signals ‘until futher notice’, reportedly due to a fault at a ground station in Italy
Facebook, WhatsApp Hit By Photo Glitch
Normal services resumed. Photo glitch with Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger now resolved
Google Calendar Hit By Global Outage
Users report being unable to recall their schedules and falling back on paper organisers
Apple Services Recovered After Tuesday Outage
Users of Apple services around the world suffer disruption on Tuesday, but services are now restored
Google Cloud Restored After Four-Hour Outage
The disruption affected Google’s online tools such as Gmail as well as those of third-parties, including Snapchat and Vimeo
Salesforce Customers Still Experiencing Issues After Major Outage
The outage began on Friday after the deployment of a database script that inadvertently granted users broad permissions over companies’ data
Facebook Restores Services After Three-Hour Outage
Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram were all affected by the incident on Sunday
Facebook Restores Services After Global Outage
Refund for advertisers? Outage spread across two days, but social network remains silient about the cause
Ministry Of Justice Network Chaos ‘Not Caused By Cyber-Attack’
Justice minister blames unknown partner data centre issues for network disruption affecting courts and other MoJ services over the past week
O2 Service Restored After Massive Data Outage
30 million customers affected by technical fault that included O2, Tesco Mobile and Sky Mobile customers
Instagram Back Online After Worldwide Outage
Normal service resumed after brief worldwide outage for the photo-sharing service
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram Users Suffer Brief Outage
Thousands of users around the world affected by brief outage of Facebook owned social services
Half Of TSB Customers Still Unable To Access Accounts
IT fiasco continues, as details of Spanish owner Sabadell’s chaotic data migration process emerges
TSB Banking ‘Back Online’, But Problems Continue
Days of chaos have resulted from a botched systems switchover at the weekend
TSB Boss Apologises For Online Banking Meltdown
IT upgrade chaos as data transfer of millions of customer records, results in customers locked out of their accounts
Double Fibre Network Rupture Downs Online Services Across The UK
Two separate network breaks cut off access to data centres run by cloud firm Iomart, affecting a wide range of customers
Day-Long Oculus Rift Outage ‘Due To Administrative Error’
Facebook’s Oculus Rift VR headset was rendered unusable for more than 15 hours after the company forgot to renew a security certificate
EE Data Network Downed For Hours By ‘Technical Issue’
The outage affected EE’s data network across the UK, with some users roaming abroad also reporting issues
Major WhatsApp Outage Impacts Millions Of People
What went wrong? Major outage across the world sees WhatsApp offline for at least half an hour
EE Confirms Voice Call Problems Affecting Users Across UK
Thousands of users around the UK have reported problems making voice calls, but data and messaging services and emergency calls are unaffected
UK National Lottery Hit By Peak-Time DDoS Attack
The National Lottery’s website and mobile app were taken offline for 90 minutes, blocking last-minute online ticket sales
Outlook.com Users Hit By Day-Long Outage Across UK, Europe
An issue with load-balancing software caused messages to pile up, with some still undelivered on Tuesday morning
Power Up: How Data Centres Support The Growth Of Online Gaming
IN DEPTH: The world of online gaming is a complex and extensive one and cloud infrastructure has a bigger role to play than ever before