This year, numerous tech companies' servers have experienced long outages, causing significant trouble for users. Let's explore the top five service interruptions of the year.
IRCTC experienced a brief outage this morning during tatkal timing. However, the site was operational within a few hours, but the e-ticketing website halted many users' activities.
The IRCTC website is currently down, and users are unable to log in or cancel their tickets. IRCTC has provided phone numbers for cancellations and TDR filing.
Pakistan social media outage: Although hours have passed, the cause of the outage remains unknown, and no official notification has been issued, raising questions about its timing.
This marks the second occasion this month when Instagram users are unable to access the platform. The company has yet to release any official statement regarding the outage.
Cuba Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy said the country had 500 megawatts in its electrical grid early on Saturday, compared to the three gigawatts that are normally generated. He posted on the social media platform X that “several substations in the west now have electricity.”
Beginning around 9 am today, many Twitter services suddenly went down, making it difficult for users to access the app. This outage affected people in numerous countries worldwide, including India.
In a stark reminder of our critical infrastructure's vulnerability, the Port of Seattle and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) experienced a cyberattack over the weekend. The attack disrupted operations and caused chaos for thousands of travellers.
Russia unleashed a massive drone and missile barrage throughout Ukraine on Monday, and at least five people were reported killed in the attack that appeared to target energy infrastructure.
Outage reports were somewhat scattered— with a handful of companies and services seeing user complaints that numbered in the hundreds or low thousands on the outage tracker Downdetector. But there appeared to be a range in reach.
According to the company which provides third-party security updates to the Satya Nadella-run tech giant, on July 19, at 9.30 am (India time), it released a sensor configuration update to Windows systems following which the IT giant faced its biggest-ever outage.
US tech giant Microsoft experienced a major outage, affecting its services for users across many countries including India, the US, Japan, and Australia.
Microsoft users, including in banks and airlines, around the world are experiencing service outages across the world. SpiceJet and Akasa Air in India are experiencing technical problems impacting flight bookings, check-in, and updates.
Microsoft outage turns into a meme fest! Users are hit with blue screens but respond with hilarious online humour. #BlueScreen frenzy trends online.
Some users shared the pictures of social media giant founder Mark Zuckerberg wherein he could be seen fixing the issue with pliers. Even Musk took to X and shared a meme where he compared his platform with Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
Airtel India is the second largest provider of mobile telephony and also the second largest provider of fixed telephony in the country and is also a provider of broadband internet and subscription television services.
As per DownDetector, a platform that monitors service outages, X (Formerly Twitter) users from various regions filed reports, and the problems started around 10:54 am.
Netflix experienced a worldwide outage, leaving users unable to connect and showing the error code "tvq-pb-101."
Google resolved Gmail delays caused by a technical glitch, issued an apology, and ensured users could send emails smoothly.
Optus, Australia's second-largest network provider, apparently suffered a 'technical network fault' that cut off at least 10 million people from internet and communications. The fault was restored after nearly 12 hours and Optus' CEO has ruled out a cyber attack.
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