A major internet outage knocked a number of airlines, banks and other businesses and institutions offline Thursday.
The second significant outage in the last 10 days occurred early in the morning at Akamai Technologies.
Virgin Australia, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Airlines, American Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Westpac Bank, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group and Hong Kong Stock Exchange were among the affected entities to be briefly taken offline. Investing platforms Vanguard, E-trade and human resources and payroll platform Automatic Data Processing also reportedly experiences issues Thursday around the same time.
However, since the disruptions happened during a time in the U.S. when few planes take off off, airline representatives told the Associated Press there was little to no effect on flights.
Akamai said that around 500 of its customers were affected after a software bug, but the issue was recognized immediately and service was restored within minutes.
“Many of the approximately 500 customers using this service were automatically rerouted, which restored operations within a few minutes. The large majority of the remaining customers manually rerouted shortly thereafter,” the company said in a statement.
“The issue was not caused by a system update or a cyberattack. A routing table value used by this particular service was inadvertently exceeded. The effect was an unanticipated disruption of service.”
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