Neowin News Feed for: Outage

Twitter, iTunes and iCloud outages affecting some users today [Update]

John Callaham — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:31:19 +0100

Twitter has admitted that it is currently experiencing some issues with its service, while elsewhere, some iTunes and iCloud users are having problems accessing those services too. Read more...

Gmail, Google Drive and other Google apps experiencing small service disruption [Update - back up]

John Callaham — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:09:23 +0100

A number of Google account users are reporting they are unable to log into their Gmail, Google Drive and other Google services. The company's app status page does currently show service disruptions. Read more...

Microsoft blames heat for Outlook.com, Hotmail, SkyDrive outage

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:18:59 +0000

Microsoft has laid the blame on an overheating data center for the recent outage to Outlook.com, Hotmail, Calendar and SkyDrive, which caused service disruptions for nearly 16 hours Read more...

Microsoft Outlook.com and Hotmail down for some users [Update]

John Callaham — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:13:34 +0000

Some users of Microsoft's online email service Outlook.com and Hotmail are reporting they are unable to sign onto their accounts this morning, although this does not appear to affect all users. Read more...

Windows Azure suffers yet another extended outage [Update: Back online]

John Callaham — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:02:28 +0000

Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud service is still dealing with an extended outage that began on Friday and affected its servers worldwide due to a expired HTTPS certificate. Read more...

Some Bing users experienced downtime on Friday

John Callaham — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 09:02:29 +0000

Microsoft's Bing search service had an extended period of downtime on Friday evening that lasted close to two hours for some users, only a few hours after issues hit Office 365 and Outlook.com. Read more...

Twitter hit with outage problems today

John Callaham — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:35:37 +0000

Twitter experienced some extended outage issues today, with service going up and down over the course of the last few hours. The company says it is working to fix the problems. Read more...

Microsoft reveals reasons for late December Azure outage

John Callaham — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:29:32 +0000

Microsoft has now announced what happened to cause the outage of one server group of its Windows Azure services in late December that caused some cloud saves for Xbox 360 users to become unavailable. Read more...

Microsoft acknowledges EPG Media Center outage for the UK

Brad Sams — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:00:44 +0000

Earlier this week we reported that Media Center users in the UK were experiencing EPG outages starting on the first of January and Microsoft has acknowledged the issue and is working on a fix. Read more...

Windows Media Center users in the UK experiencing EPG outage

Brad Sams — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:57:15 +0000

If you live in the UK and use Windows Media Center to view television programming, you may have noticed that EPG data is no longer being displayed and it appears this is a widespread issue. Read more...

Netflix gets hit with Christmas Eve outage; millions annoyed [Update: It's finally back up]

John Callaham — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 02:05:58 +0000

Many Netflix users in the US are unable to sign on to the streaming video service. Netflix says it is aware of the problem but there's no word on what caused it or when it will be fixed. Read more...

Facebook: “There has not been a hack of Facebook”

Andrew Stevenson — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:58:16 +0100

A service outage in parts of Europe has prompted one Anonymous member to say that he was behind the outage, claiming to have hacked the site via a vulnerability called cross-site request forgery. Read more...

GoDaddy.com says Monday's outage was not due to hackers

John Callaham — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:05:12 +0100

GoDaddy.com says that Monday's outage of its website, and millions of others that use its domain name service, was due to internal network issues and not the result of a cyber attack. Read more...

Wikipedia's outage caused by accidentally cut data cables

Jake Durasamy — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:17:03 +0100

Wikipedia suffered an unexpected outage yesterday, but the specifics of the incident weren't understood until today. The outage was caused by cut cables at its data center in Florida. Read more...

Microsoft: A "safety valve" issue caused Windows Azure outage

John Callaham — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:16:27 +0100

Microsoft has offered a more detailed explanation for what caused a recent European outage of its Windows Azure service, saying that a "safety valve" issue caused the shutdown. Read more...

Microsoft apologizes for Windows Azure outage in Europe

John Callaham — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 22:13:09 +0100

Microsoft has apologized for an extended outage in Europe of its Windows Azure cloud service earlier this week, saying that the issue was caused by a "misconfigured network device". Read more...

Twitter: a "double-whammy" caused latest outage

John Callaham — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 02:17:57 +0100

In a post on Twitter's blog, the social networking service says that a "infrastructural double-whammy" was the reason behind the latest extended outage for tens of millions of users. Read more...

Dropbox suffers outage amid reports of email address leaks

Steven Parker — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:35:21 +0100

Dropbox is the latest target for hackers. As well as an (unrelated) outage in some countries of Europe, users also suffered a large scale spam attack, just to add insult to injury Read more...

Netflix offers information on last weekend's outage

John Callaham — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:31:39 +0100

Netflix offered up some information on what happened with its streaming video hardware when a massive storm shut down Amazon's hardware last weekend, which included Netflix's servers. Read more...

Amazon offers details on last weekend's cloud server outage

John Callaham — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:33:07 +0100

Amazon has offered a detailed explanation on why its cloud servers went down for a number of hours this past weekend, which affected services such as Netflix and Instagram. Read more...