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Tag: Global Outages

NetBlocks tracks global outages of social media platforms, streaming services and news websites caused by DDoS attacks or product downtime. Such incidents have international or worldwide impact.

Reports · December 19, 2019

YouTube, GMail and Google services down in multiple countries

Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm outages of YouTube, GMail and other Google services in multiple countries. The disruptions are consistent with a technical error or connectivity fault …

Reports · September 6, 2019

Wikipedia disrupted globally in apparent denial of service attack

Network data show that Wikipedia servers have become intermittently unavailable as of approximately 6:00 p.m. UTC Friday 6 September 2019. Measurements show the disruptions are not related to filtering and …

Reports · May 15, 2019

Wikipedia outage with international impact detected

Network data shows that Wikipedia servers have become temporarily unavailable internationally as of 12:25 p.m. UTC. Measurements suggest the outage is caused by technical issues and not related to blocking. …

Reports · March 14, 2019

Network measurements provide insight into global Facebook outages

Analysis of 100,000 worldwide network measurements across 21 Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger servers shows no evidence of a widespread network layer fault, and no obvious signs of a DDoS …

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