Single customer triggered bug that caused global internet outage: Fastly
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On June 8, a global internet outage took the world by surprise at around 3:00pm Indian Standard Time. The outage affected many prominent news outlets and social media platforms including CNN, The Verge, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit. According to Fastly, the cloud computing service that faced the underlying issue, an unnamed single customer triggered a bug that caused the outage.