Google services including Gmail and YouTube hit by widespread outages
The company says outages were not caused by a cyberattack and all services have been restored
14 December 2020 - 23:42
Services from Alphabet’s Google experienced widespread outages about the world on Monday, temporarily preventing people from accessing Gmail, YouTube and other products from the internet giant.
Errors ranged from a notice that “something went wrong” on YouTube, to “there was an error. Please try again later”, when attempting to log into the company’s mail product from about 6.30am in New York. Google tools were failing to load for users in the US, the UK, Europe and elsewhere, but began functioning again for many people after about an hour...
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