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Internet outage crashes many websites

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London, June 8

Several major websites across the world, including the UK government’s website, crashed for some time on Tuesday due to an outage at global website hosting service Fastly.

The affected sites displayed a message saying “503 Service Unavailable”. Fastly said there were issues with its global content delivery network and was implementing a fix. “We are continuing to investigate this issue.

It was unclear if the glitch was due to a cyber-attack.— Agencies

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