Massive Internet outage: Zomato, Paytm, Disney+ Hotstar, PSN, and more services were down

Major part of the internet including services such as Zomato, Paytm, Disney+ Hotstar, Sony LIV, PlayStation Network (PSN), among others were down for many users worldwide earlier on Thursday. These services were reportedly down for over an hour and have now been resumed and working perfectly fine.

At the time of outage, hundreds and thousands of users took to microblogging site Twitter to complaint about the issues they were facing. Around an hour after the internet outage began, Internet infrastructure provider Akamai confirmed that it is facing an outage. Around 10:20pm IST, Akamai confirmed that it was able to implement a fix bringing back normal operations for most services.

Outage tracking website Downdetector also showed services such as Zomato, Paytm, Disney+ Hotstar, Sony LIV, PlayStation Network (PSN), among others suffering massive outage. These platforms were down across the globe including India. The internet outage tracker DownDetector showed that the outage started at around 8.55pm IST on Thursday evening.

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