Breaking: Thousands of banks, airlines, tech and govt websites down in mayor global outage

Dozens of websites across the UK, US and around the world are currently down, including HSBC, Barclays, American Express, Delta Airlines, British Airways, Tesco Bank, alongside the PlayStation Network, Airbnb and Waitrose, as well as ITV and TSB.

Looks like major sites, including HSBC, Barclays, Tesco Bank, alongside the PlayStation Network, Airbnb and worst of all – Waitrose – are all down

-- Rhiannon Williams (@RhiannonJudithW) July 22, 2021

British Airways is also down. A message on the BA website read: “Service Unavailable – DNS failure. The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.”

Emergency issue

Akamai, a content distribution network, or CDN, which helps data move around the internet, said on its website it’s investigating “an emerging issue with the Edge DNS service.”

The company said it expects to provide an update on its service disruption around 6pm London time.

Oracle, a cloud service provider, said moments ago it is “monitoring a global issue related to Akamai edge DNS that is impacting access to many internet resources, including Oracle cloud properties.”

Several internet services are down due to a major DNS site outage.

Some of these include Steam, PSN, Xbox Live, and more.

-- ModernWarzone (@ModernWarzone) July 22, 2021

A message on Airbnb’s site said: “This site can’t be reached.”

HSBC’s website displays a similar messgae.

There are reports a number of mayor airlines in the US are also down.

We are aware that some customers may be experiencing issues with our platforms. We are working urgently on resolving the issues. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your being a customer.

-- Fidelity Investments (@Fidelity) July 22, 2021