Banks, brokerages, PSN, the Steam Store, and more went down in massive internet outage
Photo by Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images Many websites - including banking pages, brokerages, and gaming services - were affected for just over an hour Thursday, as part of a major internet outage. During the outage, consumers were unable to access services like Ally Bank, Fidelity, Sony's PlayStation Network, Airbnb, and more. Several airline sites were also affected: Delta, British Airways, and Southwest's sites were either down, or had important functionality like flight check-ins broken.
Many sites appear to be functional again after Akamai, a content delivery network that hosts much of the internet, started rolling out a fix to its service. We are continuing to monitor the situation and can confirm this was not a result of a cyber attack on the Akamai platform" says...