BBC hit by widespread outages taking website and iPlayer offline

UK public broadcaster apologises as its internet services are taken down in what may have been a DDoS attack affecting its website, apps and streaming services

The BBC has suffered an intermittent internet services outage that took down its website, the BBC iPlayer and all other digital services provided by the bbc.co.uk domain.

Users started complaining about the iPlayer and website issues in the early hours of the morning, with web service down detector indicating major issues from around 7am on Thursday.