FILE - In this Thursday, May 6, 2021 file photo, a sign for The New York Times hangs above the entrance to its building, in New York. Numerous websites were unavailable on Tuesday June 8, 2021, after an apparent widespread outage at cloud service company Fastly. Dozens of high-traffic websites including the New York Times, CNN, Twitch and the U.K. government's home page, could not be reached. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Global Internet Outage
LONDON (77WABC) — If you had trouble accessing some of your favorite websites this morning you are not alone.
Numerous websites went offline briefly after an apparent widespread outage in the 6 am hour this morning.
Cloud services company Fastly, said there were still reports of sporadic disruptions after the company patched the problem an hour later.
Dozens of sites including the New York Times, CNN, Twitch, Reddit, the Guardian, and the U.K. government’s home page, could not be reached.
The website for NJ Transit also reportedly went down during the interruption.
San Francisco-based Fastly acknowledged a problem just before 1000 GMT. It said in repeated updates on its website that it was “continuing to investigate the issue.”
