The Guardian - Gmail and Google Drive outages
Google Drive, Gmail, Hangouts and Google Maps were down in several coutries around the world on the 13th of March 2019. Google reported that users could access the apps but were experiencing error messages, high latency and other unexpected behaviour.
Source: The Guardian
TechCrunch - 4 hour outage for Apple's iCloud
On Thursday 14th March Apple's iCloud Drive, Mail, Calendar, Notes, Keychain, Reminders, iWork, Photos, News had outages between 11:00am and 3:28pm (ET). The issue came days after Facebook and Google suffered similar issues.
Source: TechCrunch
ZDNet - Bendigo Bank IT outage
Bendigo Bank suffered an outage of its online banking and app on Wednesday the 13th of March 2019. Some users also noticed issues on the following Thursday morning and Saturday afternoon.
Source: ZDNet
The Register - Bank of Valletta goes into lockdown mode
Bank of Valletta shut down all internet access including branches and cashpoints forllowing a cyber attack.
Source: The Register
£92m downtime cost - NHS
£176m downtime cost - TSB
TSB split from the Lloyds Banking Group and migrated the old Lloyds Banking Group computer platform to the Sabadell Proteo platform.
$90 million downtime cost - Amazon
Amazon suffered an outage of its website in the US at the start of the Prime Day promotion.
Amazon was forced stop international traffic and revert to a scaled-down homepage.
£15m downtime cost - WPP
WPP, the world's largest advertising network was infected with by the NotPetya ransomware outbreak in June 2017.
Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP, Chief Executive reported the network was affected for around 10 days and cost the company up to £15m before insurance.
$300m downtime cost - Maersk
In June 2017, Maersk was infected with by the NotPetya ransomware outbreak.
In an Interim Report for Q2 2017 Maersk's CEO warned that the cyber attack is expected to "impact results negatively by USD 200-300m". The entire network was down for days leading to knock-on effects to the global shipping industry.
£500m downtime cost - British Airways
British Airways had an IT outage over the May Bank holiday in 2017. Over £500m was wiped off the market value BA's owner IAG.Read more