Akamai apologises after outage left Australia's major banks and airline systems offline
By Aimee Chanthadavong | June 17, 2021 -- 23:49 GMT (16:49 PDT) | Topic: Security
Akamai confirmed an outage of one of its Prolexic DDoS services was to blame for taking down the online services of some of Australia's major banks and airline systems on Thursday afternoon.
The company assured the issue was not caused by a system update or a cyber attack, and detailed that a routing table value used by its Prolexic DDoS services was "inadvertently exceeded".
The US-based service provider, which promotes itself as "the world's largest and most sophisticated edge platform", said it detected the issue immediately and impacted customers were alerted within seconds. Issues started to appear at approximately 2:20pm AEST on Thursday.
