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Bangladesh grid fault disrupts power in Dhaka and Chattogram as recovery proceeds
A fault on the Meghnaghat–Haripur national grid line disrupted supply in parts of Dhaka and Chattogram. Grid lines and substations returned to service at 2:30pm...
Bankinter web and app outage disrupts digital banking as recovery proceeds in stages
Bankinter’s web and mobile banking disruption extended from Monday into Tuesday. The bank said cards remained available while digital access was being restored ...
FNB says app, online banking and card payments restored after Monday disruption
FNB said its app, online banking and card payments were back up and stable after a Monday morning disruption in South Africa. The bank did not disclose the caus...
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American Airlines restores booking and check-in after vendor outage
American Airlines confirmed normal booking and check-in operations Friday afternoon after an unnamed vendor issue affected some customers. The technical cause a...
OCBC restores mobile and internet banking after access disruption
OCBC says mobile and internet banking were restored after some Singapore customers experienced intermittent slowness on October 23. The bank says ATM and card s...
PHP flaws prompt precautionary shutdowns of government websites worldwide
Government and other public-facing websites were taken offline on October 21 and 22 as operators addressed two critical PHP flaws. Security fixes are available,...
Orange and Sosh mobile outage disrupts calls and messages across France
Orange acknowledged a mobile-network incident across France on October 21, with Sosh users also affected. Customers reported disrupted calls and messages; the c...
Revolut payments disrupted as Google Cloud reports London power outage
Revolut card payments and ATM withdrawals were disrupted during a Google Cloud London outage on October 20. Google identified a power event and reported mitigat...
YouTrip restores services after outage disrupts payments in Singapore and Thailand
YouTrip restored services after an October 19 outage disrupted wallet and card functions in Singapore and Thailand. The company attributes the incident to a thi...
Introducing SID MCP: Outage intelligence for your AI workflow
Bring read-only outage context into compatible AI workflows. Explore six SID MCP tools, workspace controls and 500 free monthly credits. ...
Ukraine’s military Starlink access remains restricted despite partial recovery
Ukraine’s military Starshield satellite connectivity has improved, but October 17 reporting describes continuing movement-speed restrictions. Impacts on interce...
Data-network fault disrupts flights across Italy; ENAV uses satellite backup
Italy initially halved air-traffic capacity after an overnight data-network fault. ENAV is using satellite backup while working to restore the primary network; ...
DeepSeek restores chat and API services after nearly five-hour outage
DeepSeek restored chat, V4 Pro API and V4.1 Flash API after nearly five hours on 15 October. Compensation is account credits for API usage from 8–14 October, no...
Food Lion, Giant and Stop & Shop apps disrupted by Ahold Delhaize cyber incident
Websites and apps for Ahold Delhaize’s five U.S. grocery chains remained unavailable on Wednesday morning. The company is beginning a controlled relaunch of som...
Yandex Cloud remains disrupted after drone strike shuts Vladimir data centre
Yandex Cloud remained in limited operation on October 12 after a drone strike shut its Vladimir data centre. The operator continued restoration work and recomme...
North Platte cyber incident closes county offices and disrupts phones; 911 remains operational
A cyber incident disrupted North Platte and Lincoln County government networks on October 9, closing county offices and interrupting phone service. Nebraska aut...
Mass General Brigham network outage sends hospitals to paper procedures; recovery begins
A network disruption across Mass General Brigham took some computers and digital devices offline on October 8. Hospitals used established backup procedures and ...
IDC Frontier ransomware outage disrupts 495 customers, government websites and Nissui logistics
A ransomware attack on part of IDC Frontier’s IDCF Cloud affected 495 business and municipal customers in Japan. Government websites and Nissui logistics operat...
Q-Cash services restored after migration disrupts bank cards and ATMs in Bangladesh
Q-Cash says its payment network is back after a two-day migration-related disruption affected card, ATM and checkout transactions at participating banks in Bang...
Gulf Coast radar feeds return after five sites lose public data for days
Public weather-radar data from five Gulf Coast and southeastern sites was unavailable for days. Forecast-office access and official warnings continued; public f...
Q3 2026 Outage Report: The Hidden Dependencies Behind Visible Disruption
An evidence-led Status Is Down quarterly report distinguishing July community signals from source-linked August–September cases, with two original data visualiz...
Philippine submarine-cable outage slows internet; PLDT reroutes most affected traffic
On October 2, Philippine providers warned of slower or intermittent internet after reported disruptions on links to Singapore and Hong Kong. PLDT said it had re...
GCash services restored; Thames Water repairs East Molesey burst main
GCash said its app services were restored after a morning downtime, while Thames Water said supplies had stabilised after a burst main affected up to 15,000 pro...
Maui power outages: West Maui restoration continues as high winds strain communications
About 10,000 West Maui customers remained without power late September 27 as high winds delayed transmission-line assessments, while the county warned that cell...
Nor’easter cuts power across the Northeast and disrupts flights, rail and ferries
A September Nor’easter left tens of thousands without electricity across several Northeast states and disrupted flights, rail services and ferries, with utility...
Kyiv data-centre disruption suspends broadcasts and affects online services after reported strikes
Reports on September 26 said repeated damage to Kyiv’s Cosmonova data centre disrupted some broadcaster signals and online services, while other digital c...
Santander UK recovers partially; Tigray telecom disruption continues; Massachusetts suspends island ferries
Santander UK still reported app and debit-card issues, Ethio Telecom had no reported restoration in Tigray, and Massachusetts ferry routes were suspended throug...
When ‘Down’ Is Not ‘Gone’: Designing Graceful Degradation for Concentrated Digital Dependencies
A cross-industry whitepaper on mapping shared dependencies, preserving critical customer outcomes during disruption, and verifying recovery beyond an upstream ‘...
Oklahoma restores 911 routing after network issue; downed poles disrupt Long Island rail service
An AT&T network issue disrupted some Oklahoma 911 calls, while downed poles and high-voltage lines shut part of the LIRR Ronkonkoma Branch through the nigh...
J:COM restores broadband after widespread Japan disruption; NAB resolves digital banking outage
J:COM restored internet and related digital services after a system failure across parts of Japan, while NAB resolved a separate outage affecting online, mobile...
Northeast airport operations resume after telecom outage; Michigan State utility recovery continues
Airports resumed operations after a failed Philadelphia air-traffic-control circuit and cut backup fiber, while Michigan State continued phased steam and hot-wa...
Business Outage Monitoring for IT Teams and MSPs: Meet the New SID Dashboard
Monitor business-critical services, connect approved private signals, coordinate responders, manage MSP client workspaces, and schedule reliability reporting fr...
Get Outage Alerts in Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord and Google Chat
Get service and website outage and recovery alerts in Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord and Google Chat with Status Is Down Pro and Max. ...
Sûreté du Québec reports routing disruption on *4141 and 310-4141 lines
SQ said a technical issue could prevent calls to its *4141 and 310-4141 contact lines from reaching call-management centres in some Québec sectors. ...
Buenos Aires blackout hits nearly 600,000 accounts; Bangkok MRT closes sections after track fire
Power returned to most customers after a large Buenos Aires-area blackout, while an electrical fire closed sections of Bangkok’s Blue and Purple MRT lines. ...
Cuba begins grid recovery after nationwide blackout; Sharetec outage disrupts credit unions
Cuba began staged recovery after its national grid collapsed, while Sharetec’s data-center outage continued to limit banking access at U.S. credit unions. ...
Bell restores core 911 routing after Canada disruption; Australian airport e-gates recover
Bell restored core emergency-call routing after a multi-province disruption, while Australian Border Force separately returned airport SmartGates to service. ...
Salesforce restores global services; Missouri 911 lines return after telephone outage
Salesforce resolved a multi-region service disruption, while Missouri emergency agencies separately restored 911 telephone access after a Brightspeed interrupti...
Discord resolves session outage; Dutch rail traffic recovers after suspected sabotage
Dutch rail services gradually resumed after objects triggered safety-system failures, while Discord separately resolved a 50-minute session-unavailability incid...
Connecticut rail and airport service recover after floods; Armenia prepares for gas-import pause
Connecticut rail and airport operations resumed after flash flooding, while Armenia prepared for a planned ten-day pause in Russian gas imports without expected...
NFL+ restores streaming after Week 1 outage; Saudi pipeline shutdown puts exports at risk
NFL+ restored its streaming experience after an acknowledged Week 1 interruption, while Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline separately remained shut with expo...
Optus voice outage disrupts emergency calls; PG&E begins Northern California safety shutoffs
Optus restored voice calling after a 76-minute disruption affected emergency-call attempts, while PG&E separately began targeted wildfire-safety shutoffs i...
Los Angeles heat strains power equipment; Meriden restores most service after substation outage
Heat-related equipment strain left thousands without power in Los Angeles, while a separate substation issue interrupted service for about 5,600 Meriden custome...
Fidium restores most New England service after network issue; storms cut power in Jefferson Parish
Fidium said most service was restored after a multi-state New England network issue, while separate storms left more than 1,700 Jefferson Parish customers witho...
Collapsed drain disrupts three London Tube lines; Malta restores power after 200MW loss
A collapsed drain at Baker Street suspended parts of three London Underground lines, while Malta and Gozo restored electricity after an unrelated 200MW generati...
UK air-traffic outage affects about 2,000 flights; Kauaʻi begins power recovery after Lowell
NATS restored its flight-processing system after about 2,000 UK flights were affected across two days, while Kauaʻi crews began an island-wide recovery after ro...
Status Is UP launches uptime discovery platform and Launch Kit for website owners
Status Is UP launches as a discovery and recommendation platform highlighting strong observed uptime signals from Status Is Down data, with Launch Kit following...
Central Ohio 911 outage is restored; Pepco recovery continues after 76,000 affected by D.C.-area storms
AT&T restored 911 routing in parts of central Ohio, while Pepco said severe storms affected about 76,000 customers in D.C. and Maryland before restoration ...
ChatGPT and Claude outages hit AI users as reports spread across Gemini, Copilot and Grok
OpenAI and Anthropic confirmed separate disruptions on September 3, while users also reported Gemini, Copilot and Grok problems. No shared Cloudflare or AWS cau...
Portland airport internet outage disrupts check-in; storms cut power to more than 150,000 in Toronto and Detroit
Internet problems slowed some PDX check-ins and rental-car systems, while separate severe storms knocked out electricity to tens of thousands around Toronto, so
Microsoft 365 outage leaves small subset affected into third day; ChatGPT Work recovers after five-hour disruption
Microsoft said availability was above 99% but a small subset of Microsoft 365 users could still see impact, while OpenAI said ChatGPT Work fully recovered from
Kenya airport strike delays flights; Jaipur power failure forces NEET-PG retest for 2,445
Aviation-worker action and air-traffic-control constraints delayed flights at Kenyan airports, while an internal power failure stopped 2,445 medical graduates f
San Antonio power outage leaves 22,000 without electricity; Gatwick restores water after terminal disruption
More than 22,000 CPS Energy customers remained without electricity after severe storms, while Gatwick Airport confirmed full water restoration after a burst mai
Fortnite login outage hits PlayStation; Visayas power grid enters fifth red-alert day
Epic restored Fortnite logins on PlayStation after a 37-minute incident, while the Visayas grid faced another red alert as available generation fell below proje
Twitch outage disrupts streaming; Washington County blackout cuts power to tens of thousands
Twitch users lost access to web, chat and video services, while an unrelated transmission-system outage forced staged power restoration across Washington County
Vietnam internet slowdown: three undersea cable faults cut international capacity by 30%
New SJC2 and AAE-1 faults joined an unrepaired AAG break, cutting Vietnam’s international internet capacity by an estimated 30% while operators rerouted traffic
Website Downtime and SEO: A New Status Page Tool for Site Owners
A website outage can affect more than uptime. Learn how clear status communication supports customers, protects crawl health, and helps site owners build trust.
Proton outage goes global: Frankfurt cooling failure hits Mail, VPN, Drive and Pass
Proton identified a critical cooling failure at its Frankfurt datacenter after a global outage affected Mail, VPN, Drive, Pass and other services; at 01:37 CEST
Baltic storm outages leave 85,000 customers without power in Latvia and Lithuania as foreign crews join restoration
About 11,000 Latvian and 74,000 Lithuanian electricity customers remained without service Wednesday morning as utilities repaired storm-damaged networks and nei
Memphis power outage leaves 20,000 customers waiting; Franklin Mint digital banking outage enters another day
Storm restoration continued for roughly 20,000 Memphis-area electricity customers, while Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union’s website and digital banking remain
Long Beach power outage cuts electricity to more than 22,000 customers during heat alert
A Southern California Edison outage left more than 22,000 Long Beach customers without electricity, disrupted traffic signals and businesses, and was mostly res
CNN channel outage disrupts Warner Bros. Discovery feeds; CrossCountry power cut cancels nearly all UK trains
A Warner Bros. Discovery technical issue interrupted CNN and other channels, while a Birmingham control-centre power failure cancelled almost all CrossCountry s
Spectrum internet outage spans California’s South Valley; Metra and Amtrak delayed after Lake Forest crash
Spectrum internet service was restored after fiber damage disrupted California’s South Valley, while a Lake Forest rail collision delayed Metra and Amtrak.
Ghana power outage: Akosombo–Volta line fault cuts supply; GRIDCo advances phased restoration
GRIDCo attributed a nationwide early-morning outage to a fault on the Akosombo–Volta transmission line, which tripped hydro and thermal generation before phased
Monzo activates backup bank amid UK app outage; IndiGo reservation glitch blocks bookings in India
Monzo switched customers to an independent backup bank during a mid-day app outage, while IndiGo said an intermittent reservation-platform fault blocked some bo
GitHub outage worldwide: API, pull requests and Copilot hit as error rates spike
GitHub experienced a worldwide outage on August 17 that disrupted core developer workflows. Error rates peaked at 20% for web/API traffic and 50% for downloads,
Telecom Towers Are Falling: Why Your Internet Provider Keeps Going Down This August
If you’ve been experiencing internet issues this week, you’re not alone — and you’re not imagining it. Between August 11 and 17, 2026, telecommunications provid
Claude outage in U.S.: login errors and degraded performance reported before fix deployed
Anthropic’s Claude services experienced a brief, widely reported outage on August 16. Media citing the company’s status page described login errors, degraded pe
What to Do When Your Dating App Suddenly Goes Down
You were mid-conversation. Things were going well. They laughed at your joke about sourdough. You were about to suggest meeting up for coffee. And then… the app
Indiana Power Outage Enters Fifth Day as Fourth Storm Hits and Trump Approves Emergency Aid; Indonesia Quake Shuts 20 Fuel Stations
A fourth storm in five days pushed northern Indiana’s outage event past 320,000 customers and drew a federal emergency declaration, while power failures in east
Hurricane Lala Power Outage: 23,900 Hawaii Homes Dark as Two Airports Close; Channel Islands Mobile Faults Persist
Hawaiian Electric reported about 23,900 customers without power as Hurricane Lala crossed Hawaii, with two airports closed, three counties’ ports shut and 65 fl
Power Outage Latest: 154,000 Still Dark in Indiana After Three Storms; Colombia’s Quake-Hit Networks 80% Restored
NIPSCO reported 154,000 customers still without power on Saturday after three consecutive storms, with commuter rail signalling still affected. In Colombia, car
Mastercard Payments Fail Worldwide: Five Processors Report Errors Before Recovery Begins
Card payments on the Mastercard network began failing early on 15 August. Worldpay, Windcave, Stripe, Adyen and Cybersource each posted technical notices within
The 5 Biggest Internet Outages Ever: When Facebook Vanished, 8.5 Million PCs Died and AWS Broke the Web
A single misconfigured command, a faulty software update or one overloaded DNS provider has been enough to take large parts of the internet offline. Here are th
Namecheap Sites Go Dark for 15 Hours After Phoenix Data Centre Cooling Failure; 410,000 Lose Power in Northern Illinois
A cooling failure at a Phoenix data centre took Namecheap hosting, email and DNS management offline for about 15 hours, while storms left roughly 410,000 ComEd
Power Outage Updates: 49,000 Still Offline Near Cincinnati; Toronto Restored; Libya Substation Hit
The latest source-linked power outage updates from Greater Cincinnati, Toronto and Zawiya, Libya.
Nearly 800,000 Lose Power in the Midwest; Etna Shuts Catania Airport; Outages Reported in Libya and B.C.
Nearly 800,000 customers lost power in the U.S. Midwest. Separately, Mount Etna closed Catania Airport, while reported outages affected Libya and northern Briti
8 Times You Wished You’d Known About an Outage Before It Ruined Your Day
We’ve all been there. Standing in line, staring at a screen, or refreshing an app — only to discover that the service we desperately need has chosen this exact
The Month AI Couldn’t Stay Online: July 2026 Outage Report
Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini couldn’t deliver a single uninterrupted week in July. AT&T reported outages on 24 of 31 days. Here’s what 1,814 outage reports acros
What Happens When a Website Goes Down? A Simple Guide to Internet Outages
Every day, millions of people encounter the same frustrating experience: they try to open a website or app, and nothing loads. Whether it is a social media plat
The Biggest Outages of July 2026: A Month of Digital Disruption
July 2026 saw 1,826 outage incidents across 563 services. From AT&T’s persistent connectivity issues to AI platforms buckling under demand, here’s our data-driv
PlayStation Network vs. Xbox Live: How their reported outages compared
Few things ruin a gaming session faster than a console network outage. One moment you’re ready to jump into a match, download a new release, or join friends onl
The four seasons of the internet: Who stole the thunder in 2025, based on 10K+ reports?
Image: Marco Di Benedetto | Dreamstime.com The internet had its own seasonal wardrobe in 2025. Sometimes it wore a gaming headset, while at other points it was
The months when outages hit the hardest in 2025
Some years begin with a bang. For outage reports, 2025 began more like a low hum and then steadily turned up the volume. Across the year, Status Is Down recorde
The most paralyzing hour on the internet in 2025
There are busy days on the internet, and then there are moments when it feels like everything decides to break at once. Refresh buttons get a workout, status pa
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The hours of the day that saw the most outage reports [January to June 2026]
If the internet had an unlucky hour during the first half of 2026, the clock would point to lunchtime. Status Is Down recorded 548 outage reports at 12 PM Easte
Can a heatwave break your Wi-Fi… and make it Wi-Fry?
When temperatures soar, most people expect to deal with sweaty commutes, overheated laptops, or phones flashing temperature warnings. Wi-Fi probably isn’t the f
How many apps does one person depend on before breakfast?
Image: Sigrlynn | Dreamstime.com (edit) Before the first coffee has cooled, the average internet user has already tapped into a small digital buffet. There is t
When Americans took holidays in 2025, these apps called in sick
Some holidays are known for family gatherings, fireworks, and festive meals. Apparently, they can also be prime time for internet outbursts. Looking across majo
The internet’s worst Mondays of 2025 revealed
Mondays have a reputation for being rough, but the internet seemed to take that personally in 2025. While many people were easing back into work after the weeke
Internet down? How to actually make sense of what customer support is telling you
The internet is a central part of our lives, and we depend on it constantly. But the truth is, internet disruptions are incredibly common. Since 2024, Status Is
10 common reasons your internet goes down—and the quick fixes to try first
One minute you’re halfway through a video call, a game, or the final episode you’ve been saving all week. The next minute, you’re staring at a spinning wheel an
Need support now? How to reach a real human at major telecom providers
The internet may have transformed how we communicate, but trying to contact customer support can sometimes feel like a trip back in time. Between automated phon
How to ease older loved ones’ fears when they can’t log in
Image: Aerogondo | Dreamstime.com For older loved ones, a service outage can feel much bigger than a spinning wheel on a screen. It can look like a bank account
From Fortnite and Roblox to FC 26: Top 10 games that went down the most
Let’s face it—outages are the ultimate jump scare of modern gaming life. You’ve had a long day, you finally sit down, fire up your setup, and you’re hit with a
Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, and more down again? What to do when your favorite AI assistants stop responding
We’ve all been there. You’re on a tight deadline, ready to map out a content strategy, debug a critical script, or polish a client proposal. You open your AI as
Why cyberattack outages last days, not hours
We’ve all been there—you refresh a page, get a spinning wheel of death, and sigh. Most of the time, digital outages are just minor speed bumps. A server gets ov
Adobe, Canva, Figma & more down? These offline + digital backups could save your deadline
One minute, your layout is almost done. The next, your fonts will not sync, your cloud file will not load, or your video editor has decided to take an unschedul
Bank app down? The problem is usually bigger than your account
Banking apps have a habit of going down at the worst possible moments. One minute you’re checking whether your paycheck arrived, and the next you’re staring at
BTS, Drake & Harry Styles fans broke streaming apps in 2026 while chasing listens
Streaming services have learned a familiar lesson: never underestimate the internet’s ability to collectively hit “play” at the exact same time. From comeback a
The seven waves of outage complaints—how the internet reacts when a service goes down
Every outage has two stories. There is the technical failure, and then there is the emotional fallout. Only one of these ever appears on an official status page
AI outages are becoming normal—and users are feeling every glitch
If it felt like your favorite AI assistant went to lunch without you this month, you weren’t imagining it. As more of us rely on these tools for daily productiv