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Rakuten Mobile gets slap on the wrist over outage
Rakuten Mobile has received an ‘Administrative Guidance’ from the MIC over ‘massive disruptions’ of its voice and data services in September this year. Read more…
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Kakao is feeling the heat following massive service outage
South Korea’s Kakao suffered a massive outage over the weekend, triggering a sharp political backlash and calls for increased scrutiny on its market dominance. Read more…
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Amazon cloud suffers 27th outage in 12 months, takes major players offline
A major outage disrupts Amazon’s cloud services, temporarily knocking out its e-commerce site, as well as Netflix, Disney+ and Robinhood. Read more…
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DBS fixes online banking outage, then goes down again
DBS faced disruption in its online banking services for a second day, just hours after announcing a fix to the previous day’s outage. Read more…
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Facebook blames ‘faulty configuration change’ for massive outage
Facebook blamed a “faulty configuration change” for a nearly six-hour outage that prevented 3.5 billion users from accessing its services. Read more…
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Australian business thrown into chaos by telecoms outage
Australian banks and retailers were thrown into chaos by a telecoms outage that knocked out electronic payment systems and cash machines. Read more…
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Target not targeted over the weekend despite multiple outages
Target Corp said its payment registers were back online after a systems outage stopped customers in the United States from paying for in-store purchases. Read more…
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Vodafone, Google expose the real flaw in 5G (and everything)
At 3 p.m. on Thursday 13th 2019, Vodafone customers took to social media to complain that their service was down (if they were able to). Read more…
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Facebook down so staff use Twitter to keep people updated
Facebook struggled to restore its services fully on Thursday after a 17-hour partial outage so representatives took to Twitter to update users on the problems. Read more…