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Apple Offers No Explanation for 7-Hour Outage (nbcnews.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the missing-Mac-music dept.

Apple services went offline for up to 7 hours Thursday -- and the company has yet to offer an explanation. An anonymous reader writes: The outage affected the App Store, iTunes in the Cloud, Apple TV, Mail Drop, Find my iPhone, and Photos. During the outage, Apple responded to complaints on Twitter, "Thank you for the information. We're aware of this issue and are investigating," Tech Times reports that the iCloud Music Library had also experienced an outage on Wednesday, and that just weeks ago Apple released an operating system update which bricked several iPad Pros. And yesterday Amazon also experienced a service outage.

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  1. this kind of thing is usually a DDoS by YesIAmAScript · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When companies have outages like this and don't want to talk about it it's usually a DDoS.

    They don't want to brag they can be DDoSed nor do they want to help pump up the group who did it. They don't want to give any info which is feedback about how well it worked either so the attackers can tune their attacks or gauge their chance of success if it was a dry run.

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    1. Re: this kind of thing is usually a DDoS by Rosyna · · Score: 4, Interesting

      While Apple isn't obligated to state while something was does, there are reasons other than a DDoS that seem more likely.

      One is that various Apple services use both Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure for file storage. Given that not every Apple service was down for everyone, it's possible the Amazon outage was related to the Apple outage.

      Secondly, numerous other services on the internets were down, including numerous .gov websites belonging to states (California.gov, Connecticut.gov), it's possible a regional Internet backbone was having issues.

      Although the most likely reason remains Apple that was working on some backend changes for new features and/or services they'll be announcing at WWDC and something went wrong.

  2. Awful editing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    1) It's really late to post this story

    2) Wow, there's a ton of tangential or unrelated crap in the summary

    Holy shit the editing sucks now. Amazon's downtime is almost certainly unrelated to Apple's outage. The part about Apple's bad OS update is completely unrelated. Why add that crap to the summary?

  3. maybe im paranoid by LodCrappo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    apple, amazon, teamviewer and maybe more have had similarish seeming outages recently. one theory in the teamviewer incident was that attackers manipulated dns to gather credentials that the teamviewer client leaked when redirected. another is that the LinkedIn compromise combined with users using the same password on multiple sites lead to the teamviewer exploits and maybe some on Tumblr and myspace too.

    spooky week for security things. if this is an organized thing and now apple accounts are targeted, about to get worse. but maybe its nothing, i honestly have no idea.

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  4. A dev is claiming responsibility by drunkenoafoffofb3ta · · Score: 5, Interesting

    (He uploaded a series of >2Gb app updates at the same time). https://m.facebook.com/story.p...