Websites and apps around the world went down Tuesday morning, including government websites such as Gov.uk, e-commerce websites like Target, and media websites like CNN, The Guardian and the New York Times.
First everybody thought it was a widespread ransomware attack…
Because, when Fastly went down, it went down hard: Three-quarters of the traffic coming from Fastly disappeared at around 5:49 am ET, according to Doug Madory, director of internet analysis for Kentik, a cloud company that assists large companies with network problems.
Traffic began returning about 50 minutes later, at 6:39 am ET.
The outage affected dozens of countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, as well as South Africa.
The problem appeared to be related to an outage at Fastly, a cloud service provider, which reported a widespread failure. It says it has identified and fixed the issue but many websites continued to be unavailable for some users as of 7 a.m. ET.
Fastly supports news sites and apps like CNN, the Guardian, the New York Times and many others. It also provides content delivery for Twitch, Pinterest, HBO Max, Hulu, Reddit, Spotify and other services.
What is Fastly and what is its role in the outage?
Fastly helps improve the time it takes for websites to load and provides other services to internet sites, apps and platforms — including a large global server network.
Major website and app outages happen from time to time and typically don’t last long — internet service providers, content delivery networks and other hosting services are built with multiple redundancies and a global network of backup servers designed to reduce disruptions when things go haywire.
Fastly supports news sites and apps like CNN, the Guardian, the New York Times and many others. It also provides content delivery for Twitch, Pinterest, HBO Max, Hulu, Reddit, Spotify and other services.
Major website and app outages happen from time to time and typically don’t last long — internet service providers, content delivery networks and other hosting services are built with multiple redundancies and a global network of backup servers designed to reduce disruptions when things go haywire.
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Fastly, a company that bragged on its security, came crashing down on June 8 and this was not an accident. Note that many of the leading Fake News sites, notably anti-Trump, were affected – CNN and the New York Times and Twitter. Yet just days earlier some neutral news carriers such as Cox had been attacked by ransom demands. Is this a media war? We have noted repeatedly that the most difficult element of the war on truth has been control of the media. As has been noted, Twitter and FaceBook are virulently anti-Trump.
This sword cuts both ways, and that was the message being delivered by this outage. Fastly brags on their security, yet it utterly failed for a full day. We, the Zetas, assisted in this caper, as it was clear that the media planned to block the truth about the 2020 election so the public would be confused and divided. Recounts and audits in many states are showing the degree of election fraud, yet does the public hear of this? Our teleport ability puts Junta technicians into locked rooms, and this was one aspect of the attack. Should the anti-Trump media bellow about their 1st Amendment rights, they can sue us
—All the snowflakes wet their beds over the outage.
Today, I heard some “hackers” stole billions of passwords. Billions!
That could be a future pain in the @ss for somebody.