Major Websites Go Down in the US in Simultaneous Crashes

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By Agence France-Presse | Updated: 16 October 2015 10:41 IST
Major Websites Go Down in the US in Simultaneous Crashes
Dozens of major websites including Netflix, Uber and the BBC went down simultaneously on Thursday in some areas of the United States, but were soon back up again in most cases.

The cause of the crashes remained unclear, but in some of the cases could have been connected to trouble at a cloud service relied on by companies.

"We're aware that members are experiencing issues streaming on all devices," streaming television service Netflix said in a tweet at its customer service Twitter account.

"We're working to resolve the problem."

Netflix spokesman Joris Evers told AFP that the outage was the result of "technical issues" at an UltraDNS cloud service provided by Neustar and affected mostly US subscribers.

"UltraDNS is working to address the issue," Evers said. "We apologize for the inconvenience."

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Neustar confirmed in a tweet that there was an issue with its UltraDNS and that getting service back to its customers was top priority.

Internet trouble tracker CurrentlyDown.com displayed a list of two dozen websites that were or had been out of service during the day.

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The list also included Ameritrade and The Economist.

It was unclear whether all those affected relied on UltraDNS.

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The outages sparked chatter at Twitter and other social networks.

"Netflix, HBOGo, Chase Bank, Uber, ETrade... all websites down at the same time," tweeted Joseph Colarusso from the Twitter account @jcolarusso.

"Coincidence or Cyber-Attack?"

 

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