Massive Global Internet Outage Hits Major Websites

A vast worldwide internet outage an hour ago resulted in multiple popular websites including leading news portals faced outage. BBC, The New York Times, Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, GitHub, Hulu, HBO Max, CNN, the Guardian, Financial Times are among others to go down.

The technical glitch is likely to be from a US-based cloud service company named Fastly, several reports suggested. “Error 503 Service Unavailable,” was the message that appeared on the affected websites. “We are continuing to investigate this issue. We’re currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services,” Fastly said.

At the moment, it is yet to be confirmed if the glitch happened was due to a cyber-attack. British newspaper Guardian said its website and app were affected by the wider internet outage. Other massive internet chunks which were affected are Amazaon.com Inc’s retail website, UK’s gov.uk, Quora, PayPal, and Shopify. These sites showed a ‘service unavailable message but they were soon restored’.

Fastly confirmed that “the issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return.” Earlier, most of Fastly’s coverage areas were facing “Degraded Performance”, the company’s website showed.