outages

Zoom suffered a Monday morning outage that prevented users from holding virtual conferences at the start of the work week. The videoconferencing platform — which has seen a surge in new users amid the coronavirus pandemic — said the partial outage had left users unable to start or join meetings and webinars. The California-based company …

A gang of Russian hackers may be behind the cyberattack that disabled Garmin’s fitness-tracking services for several days, reports say. The attackers reportedly crippled the smartwatch maker’s Garmin Connect service last week with malicious software tied to Evil Corp., a Moscow-based hacker group run by alleged cybercriminal Maksim Yakubets. Evil Corp. runs the WastedLocker ransomware …

Garmin’s fitness-tracking service has been down for at least a day — a massive outage that may have been caused by a cyberattack. The smartwatch and GPS maker first confirmed Thursday morning that the outage had disabled its Garmin Connect service, which lets users track their workouts and personal health data through a smartphone app. …

T-Mobile blamed a bum fiber-optic circuit for Monday’s massive network outage that rankled customers and prompted a federal investigation. Neville Ray, the wireless carrier’s president of technology, issued a statement Tuesday explaining the cause of the failure that crippled certain voice calls and text messages for roughly 13 hours. T-Mobile engineers traced the outage to …