Paytm, Zomato goes down after global outage, services back to normal now
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New Delhi: Digital payments company Paytm and food aggregator Zomato were among the digital platforms that experienced a temporary outage for nearly half an hour on Thursday night with users across the country experiencing accessing issues.
Hours after the outage, Akamai, the company which provides one of the world's largest content delivery networks (CDNs), said in a tweet that it has resolved an issue that caused service disruption for several widely used websites. The shares slipped in early afternoon trading in New York.
Akamai had earlier said it was experiencing a service disruption, and that it would investigate the problem. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company said the incident wasn't related to a cyberattack but hasn't yet explained the cause.
Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal tweeted that their app was down, due to a widespread Akamai outage.
Paytm, Disney+ Hotstar, Sony LIV, Paytm, PlayStation Network (PSN), among others were down for many users around the world.
Social media users reported widespread outages globally.
"This is causing a huge outage all over Europe and the US. In the Netherlands, none of the major banks are reachable. Nobody can do any online payments at the moment. Hopefully, this is resolved quickly," one Twitter user posted.
"Google Chat web down, iOS/Android up. Workspace fine. @AmericanAir web up, iOS/Android app down," another user said.
Last week, several major Australian banks, including lenders Commonwealth Bank, Westpac and ANZ, on Thursday suffered website crashes affecting users.
According to the tracking site Downdetector, issues were reported with the sites of ANZ, Westpac, St George, ME bank, Macquarie Bank, Allianz, and the Commonwealth Bank.
Australian tech commentator Trevor Long suggested that problems with web services company Akamai could be behind the wave of issues.
Earlier this month, an internal problem at another large CDN, Fastly, prompted an hour-long outage at several high-profile websites including Amazon, Reddit, and the UK government site.