A major broadband outage in the North East of England that took down interent connections for BT and TalkTalk customers was caused by …

Additional updates will be provided as they become available.The company has also published a set of Frequently Asked Questions to assist its customers.Although Garmin Connect is not accessible during the outage, activity, and health and wellness data collected from Garmin devices during the outage is stored on the device and will appear in Garmin Connect once the user syncs their device.inReach SOS and messaging remain fully functional and are not impacted by the outage. He mentioned 4 UPSs, so not sure if that’s N+1 on each PDU? ISPs expecting their DC provider to ensure resilience and relying on a single data centre are learning a hard lesson.I’ve been assured by an engineer that the new A+B feeds are fed via independent A+B PDUs and then route to separate UPS systems. and last updated 2020-06-03 15:39:02-04.
“There is sadly still no estimated fix time which is most frustrating. Or something else but he seemed to suggest that previously A+B went to a single UPS! Best info seems to be coming from one of their customers here: The co-location is described by Equinix as offering access to “dense concentrations of financial services, Internet service providers, cloud and IT services, enterprises and content and digital media companies.” BT is among those affected.Today Equinix IBX LD8, in the Docklands, London, UK, experienced a power outage.

This has impacted customers who are based there.

This includes the MapShare website and email reply page. This connects the critical load to either conditioned power from the UPS or raw mains from the bypass supply.

“It is clearly unacceptable to experience a power outage of this gravity”Data centre giant Equinix says it has restored racks for all customers after suffering a lengthy power outage at its IBX LD8 data centre in London’s docklands — the issue knocked services offline for hundreds of customers including several ISPs starting 4:30am BST; leaving many deeply frustrated at the slow restoration of power.Various customers identified the issue as a failing output static switch in the Galaxy UPS system (sold by Schneider). All our equipment power suppliers are dual fed with ‘diverse’ A+B power feeds provided by the data centre – however after this incident we suspect that there is a lack of resiliency and will be sure to raise this after the incident is resolved as this is clearly unacceptable to experience a power outage of this gravity.”LINX lost about one third of their traffic when (part of?) Major Comcast outage reported in most of Indiana.

Looks a bit like power systems that were due to be replaced have failed early and are NOW being replaced. The data centre’s access control systems have been knocked offline by the outage, one customer, Matthew Skipsey said, “sMajor DC outage ongoing down London way. Additionally, our product support call centers are affected by the outage and as a result, we are currently unable to receive any calls, emails or online chats.We are working to restore our systems as quickly as possible and apologize for the inconvenience. By: Katie Cox.

The status of Garmin Connect can be found Garmin has no indication that this outage has affected your data, including activity, payment or other personal information.Head of e-crime at Mimecast Carl Wearn said it is not a surprise that another organisation has fallen victim to a suspected ransomware attack.“It is clear in this instance that the victim has experienced lengthy downtime as a result of this attack, which will, of course, have a massive impact upon the business,” said Wearn.Wearn said Mimecast research has found that the average downtime an organisation suffers from a ransomware attack is three days, but can extend indefinitely.“This particular attack is also worrying because of the type of data that could be lost, including both location and personal health data,” said Wearn.“When consumers trust organisations with this data, it is absolutely vital that it is kept secure.

We regret any inconvenience this has caused” the company said in its first public statement at 12:04 BST on August 18. )o everything [is] running manually over two way radio then phoned through somewhere else. As a result of the outage, some features and services across these platforms are unavailable to customers. This follows a UPS failure, which then triggered the fire alarm in the data centre according to reports from Equinix.