Online banking and gaming services hit by internet outage
The websites of HSBC, ITV and Waitrose were among those hit by a widespread outage that briefly caused disruption on Thursday afternoon.
Major online banking services – including Barclays, TSB, the Bank of Scotland, Tesco Bank and Sainsbury’s Bank – were either entirely or partially inaccessible for a short period.
Unconfirmed reports suggest the problem may be linked to a performance product offered by Akamai, an American firm, which began investigating issues just after 5pm UK time.
Its Edge DNS service is designed to improve loading times and combat attacks, using a network of servers dotted around the world.
Later, Akamai tweeted: “We have implemented a fix for this issue, and based on current observations, the service is resuming normal operations.
“We are continuing to monitor the situation and can confirm this was not a result of a cyber-attack on the Akamai platform.”
