Tagged: outage

November 13, 2026 @ 11:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Employees who depend on email and collaboration tools across corporate America encountered sudden roadblocks on Thursday when a disruption hit Outlook and related Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) services, temporarily locking users out of essential workplace applications during regular business hours. Public relations specialist Erin Friedlander captured… Read More

November 10, 2026 @ 3:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A cluster of recent banking interruptions has underscored the fragility of both traditional and digital financial systems. In Japan, a significant technical failure briefly halted operations at 128 cooperative banks, locking customers out of everyday services. Parallel challenges in Paraguay and a major cyber incident… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 5:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lloyds Banking Group customers across the United Kingdom faced another disruption to digital banking on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, when mobile applications for Lloyds Bank, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland became unavailable for a period during the afternoon. Many account holders found they could not… Read More

May 10, 2026 @ 5:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The recent disruption at investment platform Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), triggered by a widespread failure at Amazon Web Services (AWS), underscores a persistent vulnerability in the infrastructure supporting major cryptocurrency trading venues. On May 7, 2026, an overheating incident in an AWS data center in Northern Virginia… Read More

May 9, 2026 @ 9:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) faced a major disruption when its services went offline for approximately seven hours. The incident, which occurred overnight, left users unable to access the exchange for buying, selling, or managing digital assets during a critical window. According to Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, the… Read More

March 29, 2026 @ 7:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SadaPay, one of Pakistan’s digital wallets, has fully restored its mobile app following a complete service blackout on March 25. The interruption was triggered by a drone strike linked to escalating tensions between Iran and regional powers, which directly damaged Amazon Web Services infrastructure in… Read More

January 16, 2026 @ 11:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Monzo, a top digital bank, experienced a several-hour outage this past week. The American Banker reported that users experienced failed payments and challenges in reaching customer support. On the Monzo community board, a representative stated that as soon as platform issues were identified, they activated… Read More

December 5, 2025 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Cloudflare has dropped the ball once again, impacting big sites and platforms with a surprise outage. Cloudflare posted on X: “A change made to how Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall parses requests impacted the availability of Cloudflare’s network for several minutes today. This was not an… Read More

November 18, 2025 @ 8:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Cloudflare, one of the most vital internet infrastructure firms serving tens of thousands of businesses, saw its services fail today, causing many well-known sites like X, Spotify, and this site you are visiting now. After several hours of disruptions, Cloudflare issued a statement sharing that… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 5:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The recent large-scale Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage represents a moderate incident for cyber (re)insurers, according to CyberCube, the cyber risk analytics provider. The scale, duration, as well as geographic concentration of the disruption, “centered in the US-East-1 (N. Virginia) region, underscore the systemic risk… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

AWS, the incredibly successful infrastructure venture by Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) experienced an outage earlier today that impacted thousands of website. AWS confirmed the outage explaining there was an issue with a Domain Name System (DNS) failure that mainly impacted the US East – 1 region. While… Read More

April 27, 2025 @ 5:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A widespread outage struck Arvest Bank’s online and mobile banking platforms on April 25, 2025, affecting thousands of customers across Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. The disruption, which began around 3 a.m. ET, reportedly prevented users from accessing their accounts, paying bills, or making transactions,… Read More

July 12, 2022 @ 6:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Canada’s debit network Interac is reportedly adding a backup network provider after this past week’s large-scale outage at Rogers, which had left millions of clients unable to complete payments. In statements shared with Reuters, the company’s management noted: “We are adding a supplier (besides Rogers)… Read More

November 16, 2020 @ 9:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) had to shut down for business on Monday (November 16, 2020) due to a software issue in a newly installed trading system – which was provided by Nasdaq. ASX’s management noted that the software glitch had created inaccurate market data… Read More

September 2, 2020 @ 12:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

While TransUnion (NYSE:TRU) pursues a path of silence on the matter, yesterday’s outage is said to have been caused by a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDOS) according to an industry insider. The TransUnion site is currently live and working fine as of this report…. Read More

September 1, 2020 @ 6:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

Transunion (NYSE:TRU), a financial services data platform and credit report provider, struggled with an outage today. At the time of this writing, Transunion’s website would not load and company representatives were not responding to an inquiry regarding the outage. Transunion is perhaps best known for… Read More

March 9, 2020 @ 3:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Robinhood suffered another outage today during a historic market rout as a combination of Coronavirus hysteria and a plunging oil market raised economic fears to a new height. Traders using the Robinhood platform once again endured a multi-hour outage. Services appear to be completely restored… Read More