Websites affected included the U.K. government’s main public-services portal and several major news outlets.
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Dozens of websites in the U.S. and Europe were inaccessible early Tuesday, with at least one internet outage tracker reporting widespread disruptions.
Sites including the U.K. government’s main public-services portal and several major U.S. and European news outlets were inaccessible. Down Detector, an internet services tracker, reported a spike in outages just after 6 a.m. Eastern time.
Social media users described widespread outages in multiple regions.
Fastly, the operator of a content-delivery network service that many websites use to help speed the loading of their web pages for users, reported issues with its services on Tuesday morning, though it was unclear whether the broader website outages were related. “We’re currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services,” the company said in an online-status page.
At 6:44 a.m. E.T., Fastly’s status page indicated the company had identified a problem with its service, saying a fix was being implemented.
Most of the websites that went down displayed a simple error message in plain text, saying, “Error 503 Service Unavailable,” and including other codes.
Shortly before 7 a.m. many of the websites affected began to come back online for at least some users.
More to follow.
Write to Sam Schechner at [email protected] and Parmy Olson at [email protected]
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