The massive internet blackout which brought down hundreds of websites across the world has been blamed on a single unnamed IT customer. Yesterday's outage was caused by a software bug triggered when a customer for Fastly – the US cloud-computing company responsible for the problems – changed their settings, the firm said. Scroll down for videoSource: The internet blackout which brought down hundreds of websites across the world has been blamed on a single customer of Fastly, the US company responsible for the issue (stock)Which sites were hit? In a blog post on its website, Fastly apologised for the outage – which lasted about an hour – and said it should have anticipated it. Some sites including the UK government website were offline entirely, while others such as Twitter had more specific errors, such as not showing emojis.

Source: Daily Mail June 09, 2021 14:58 UTC