{"id":125305,"date":"2021-07-22T12:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T19:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/major-outage-hits-major-websites-as-911-goes-down-in-multiple-cities"},"modified":"2021-07-22T12:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T19:22:18","slug":"major-outage-hits-major-websites-as-911-goes-down-in-multiple-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/major-outage-hits-major-websites-as-911-goes-down-in-multiple-cities","title":{"rendered":"Major outage hits major websites as 911 goes down in multiple cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/major-outage-hits-major-websites-as-911-goes-down-in-multiple-cities.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A major internet outage has affected the websites of major retail, financial, logistics and travel websites, while 911 service in several Virginia cities appears to be affected by a cut fiber optic cable.<\/p>\n<p>Down Detector, a service that detects whether websites are working properly or not, began reporting a series of at least 50 major website outages shortly before 12pm EST on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The websites of UPS, Delta Air Lines, Costco, American Express and Home Depot were down, displaying domain name system (DNS) service errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major internet outage has affected the websites of major retail, financial, logistics and travel websites, while 911 service in several Virginia cities appears to be affected by a cut fiber optic cable. Down Detector, a service that detects whether websites are working properly or not, began reporting a series of at least 50 major [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,15,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-habitats","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}