internet outage

A widespread internet outage hit the South Bay on Wednesday, forcing many working or taking classes from home to head outdoors and search for a WiFi hotspot.

A widespread internet outage hit the South Bay on Wednesday, forcing many working or taking classes from home to head outdoors and search for a WiFi hotspot. Scott Budman reports.

Many CenturyLink customers across the U.S. were without internet Thursday amid a lengthy outage that even affected some Verizon customers. The outage began early in the day but by late Thursday night, the company tweeted that its engineers had identified a “network element” that was affecting services and expected to fully restore services within hours. CenturyLink said early Friday morning...

Pyeongchang Winter Olympics organizers confirmed on Sunday that the Games had come under a cyber attack during Friday’s opening ceremony. The internet and television services were affected by the hack. The organizers wouldn’t reveal the source of the attack, which they said, did not affect critical parts of their operations, Reuters reported. “Maintaining secure operations is our purpose,” said International...

Pyeongchang Olympic organizers are investigating a possible attack on their internet and Wi-Fi systems that took place about 45 minutes before the opening ceremony. Organizing committee spokeswoman Nancy Park said the defense ministry and a cybersecurity team were investigating the outage that occurred Friday night. “It didn’t affect the opening ceremony,” Park said. “It went as planned. We just had...

A month after floods devastated a San Jose neighborhood, rain returned to the Bay Area, but no overflows are expected this time, officials say.

A construction crew severed a cable in San Francisco’s South of Market on Monday, taking out internet service in parts of the neighborhood.

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