Airline and bank websites go down in another major internet failure [telecom]

Jul 13, 2021 0 Replies

By Tina Burnside, Alexandra Meeks and Clare Duffy, CNN Business



Updated 1818 GMT (0218 HKT) June 17, 2021



London (CNN Business)Airlines, banks, stock exchanges and trading platforms suffered brief website outages early Thursday after a key piece of internet infrastructure failed, sparking the second major interruption of the past 10 days.



Virgin Australia said in a statement on Thursday that it had resolved an IT outage caused by a failure at Akamai Technologies (AKAM), a global content delivery network.



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