Popular Websites: BBC, Reddit, Amazon Affected by a Mass Internet outage

On the night of 8th June, a global internet outage hit popular websites like BBC, Reddit, Forbes, and Twitch. Even the major websites like Amazon, Twitter, PayPal, and the UK government’s home page were also hit by the outage.

Here is the complete list of websites that were down:

• AFR
• Age
• Amazon
• Boots
• BuzzFeed
• CNN
• Deliveroo
• Etsy
• Evening Standard
• Financial Times
• Giphy
• Horse and Hound
• IGN
• Imgur
• Independent
• Kickstarter
• Le Monde
• New York Times
• PayPal
• Pinterest
• Reddit
• Royal Mail
• SMH
• Spotify
• Taboola
• The Guardian
• The Verge
• Twitch
• Twitter
• UK Government website (including HM Revenue and Customs)
• Vimeo
• Weightwatchers

If you want to read this in detail, I have covered it on my website blog as well. Check it out from here: Popular websites were down due to 503 issue