ABUJA, Nigeria — A dozen countries across Africa suffered a major internet outage on Thursday as multiple undersea telecommunication cables reported failures, network operators and internet watch groups said. The MTN Group, one of Africa’s largest network providers, said the ongoing disruptions were a result of failures in multiple major undersea cables. “Our operations are … Read more
A cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare has ground much of the U.S. healthcare system to a halt for the second week in a row. Hospitals have been unable to check insurance benefits of in-patient stays, handle the prior authorizations needed for patient procedures and surgeries, or process billing that pays for medical … Read more
Donald Trump during a Super Tuesday election night watch party at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, US, on March 5, 2024.Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg (Getty Images) Truth Social, the social media platform launched by Donald Trump in 2022, suffered a widespread outage on Thursday. And it’s unfortunate timing for the former president. He … Read more
Update, 5:50 p.m. ET: LinkedIn appears to be back up globally, though it’s still not clear what caused the outage. Russian Court Says Meta Is “Extremist Organization” It’s not just you. LinkedIn is experiencing a widespread outage with users taking to other social media sites like X and Facebook to complain. It’s not immediately clear … Read more
Around 10:00 AM EST, the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram went down simultaneously around the world. Both social media sites belong to the same parent company, Meta. Users flocked to Twitter, now known as simply X, to share their grief and to see if that platform had also been affected by the sudden outage. … Read more
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg used to describe his company’s mission as “making the world more open and connected.” Tuesday it did the opposite, as nearly all of Meta’s social platforms, which include Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger, experienced widespread outages around the globe for around two hours. Some people found themselves being suddenly logged out … Read more
Were you affected by the AT&T outage that left customers unable to use their cellular service this past Thursday? AT&T would like to make it right by issuing a $5 credit to your account. That’s right. Five bucks. According to AT&T, that amount is the equivalent of one day of service on an average AT&T … Read more
Wireless customers with AT&T, Cricket Wireless, T-Mobile, and Verizon all reported outages across the country this morning. And just like clockwork, some folks online pounced on the disruption as evidence of a global conspiracy. Dave Bautista Opens Up About His Relationship With Denis Villeneuve Alex Jones, arguably America’s most popular conspiracy theorist, believes the telecom … Read more
An AT&T service outage that impacted a huge number of its customers across the U.S. on Thursday was not caused by a cyber attack, the company’s initial investigation has revealed. Instead, the cellular and internet outage was the fault of work that it was carrying out on its systems, AT&T said in a message posted … Read more
The cause of Thursday’s AT&T network outage has been revealed. In a statement posted Thursday evening to the company’s website and shared with CNET, the carrier said the issue was the result of software and not a cyber attack. “Based on our initial review, we believe that today’s outage was caused by the application and … Read more