"global-outage"

Says either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved in glitches

According to Microsoft, 8.5 million devices across the world were impacted by the outage caused by an update from CrowdStrike

According to Downdetector, over 6,500 users reported issues accessing the platform in India at the peak of an outage around 12:02 p.m

Meta-owned Instagram was back online after a brief global outage as users witnessed errors saying the app couldn't refresh, while it also went blank for some others.

WhatsApp acknowledged the problem and tweeted: "We are actively working to address the connectivity issues with WhatsApp, and we will provide updates here as soon as possible."

According to the outage monitor website DownDetector, over 59 per cent of people had reported problems while using the application, 32 per cent while using the website, and 9 per cent with server connection.

According to website outage tracker Downdetector, the online store of ecommerce giant suffered an outage that began early Monday morning around 7 am.

One affected user, unable to login into his PS4 console, said: "Even when I try to log in into the site of PlayStation goes 404 error."

"We're rolling back the update to mitigate impact, which we expect will take approximately 15 minutes," Microsoft 365 team said in a series of tweets.