Whoops… a TYPO!!
The major internet outage across the United States earlier this week was not due to any virus or malware or state-sponsored cyber attack, rather it was the result of a simple TYPO.Amazon on Thursday admitted that an incorrectly typed command during a routine debugging of the company’s billing system caused the 5-hour-long outage of some Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers on Tuesday.
The issue caused tens of thousands of websites and services to become completely unavailable, while others show broken images and links, which left online users around the world confused.
The sites and services affected by the disruption include Quora, Slack, Medium, Giphy, Trello, Splitwise, Soundcloud, and IFTTT, among a ton of others.
Source: How A Simple Command Typo Took Down Amazon S3 and Big Chunk of the Internet
