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Online banking and gaming services hit by internet outage
Also: Major websites hit by global outage (BBC)
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Source: PA Media
Online banking and gaming services hit by internet outage
PA Media
Thu 22 Jul 2021 19.44 BST
The websites of HSBC, ITV and Waitrose were among those hit by a widespread outage that briefly caused disruption on Thursday afternoon.
Major online banking services – including Barclays, TSB, the Bank of Scotland, Tesco Bank and Sainsbury’s Bank – were either entirely or partially inaccessible for a short period.
Airbnb, the PlayStation Network and Steam also experienced the temporary glitch, with some showing users a DNS error.
Unconfirmed reports suggest the problem may be linked to a performance product offered by Akamai, an American firm, which began investigating issues just after 5pm UK time.
Its Edge DNS service is designed to improve loading times and combat attacks, using a network of servers dotted around the world.
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PA Media
Thu 22 Jul 2021 19.44 BST
The websites of HSBC, ITV and Waitrose were among those hit by a widespread outage that briefly caused disruption on Thursday afternoon.
Major online banking services – including Barclays, TSB, the Bank of Scotland, Tesco Bank and Sainsbury’s Bank – were either entirely or partially inaccessible for a short period.
Airbnb, the PlayStation Network and Steam also experienced the temporary glitch, with some showing users a DNS error.
Unconfirmed reports suggest the problem may be linked to a performance product offered by Akamai, an American firm, which began investigating issues just after 5pm UK time.
Its Edge DNS service is designed to improve loading times and combat attacks, using a network of servers dotted around the world.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jul/22/online-banking-and-gaming-services-hit-by-internet-outage
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Source: BBC
Major websites hit by global outage
22 July 2021
Many popular websites fell offline on Thursday in a widespread global outage of service.
Visitors attempting to reach some sites received DNS errors, meaning their requests could not reach the websites.
Affected services included Airbnb, UPS, HSBC bank, British Airways and the PlayStation network used for online games.
One popular DNS provider, Akamai, reported "an emerging issue" with its Edge DNS service.
It has now tweeted that the issue has been fixed and "the service is resuming normal operations".
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22 July 2021
Many popular websites fell offline on Thursday in a widespread global outage of service.
Visitors attempting to reach some sites received DNS errors, meaning their requests could not reach the websites.
Affected services included Airbnb, UPS, HSBC bank, British Airways and the PlayStation network used for online games.
One popular DNS provider, Akamai, reported "an emerging issue" with its Edge DNS service.
It has now tweeted that the issue has been fixed and "the service is resuming normal operations".
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57929544
Link to tweet
