Meanwhile major banks including HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds Bank, Halifax, TSB, Tesco Bank, and the Bank of Scotland were beset by issues. The mass outage comes just a month after some of Australia's major websites - including from various media outlets - crashed. Those problems hit The Age and The Guardian along with other sites such as Nine, which were returning an 'Error 503 service unavailable' message. Major content delivery network Akamai, which provides domain name system services, says it is experiencing problems and appeared to shoulder the blame tonight. Akamai is a major content delivery network (CDN) firm that facilitates internet services for other companies.

Source: The Nation July 22, 2021 16:52 UTC