Gmail outage

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by dealmaker, Dec 16, 2020.

  1. dealmaker

    dealmaker

    Gmail outage

    Gmail suffered its second outage in as many days yesterday, this time conking out for over two hours rather than one. The initial outage was apparently down to an authentication error, affecting all of Google's services that require users to log in with a Google account. Fortune
     
  2. Starting in 2021 inactive accounts will be deleted after 2 years of inactivity.
     
  3. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    So it does sound like it's the Russians? Treasury was hit through a token authentication hack
     
  4. Turveyd

    Turveyd

    My internet was down entire provider Telewest for about 6hours aswell today, first time in 10+ years.
     
  5. I wonder if Yahoo Finance also has been affected - the option chains have been screwed up for a couple of days now.
     
  6. userque

    userque

    Google Maps and Google/Android Messages for Web has been degraded since late yesterday.
     
  7. Overnight

    Overnight

    That's why you should use a personal computer. They are better.

     
  8. userque

    userque

    I am using a personal computer.
     
  9. userque

    userque

    Turns out, I had a DNS issue with my VPN--or Google had a DNS issue with my VPN.
     
  10. Overnight

    Overnight

    Oh, you mentioned Android, so I thought you were using their phone. My bad.
     
    #10     Dec 18, 2020