Yesterday’s Web Outage Blamed On “Software Bug”

The Associated Press reports:

Fastly, the company hit by a major outage that caused many of the world’s top websites to go offline briefly this week, blamed the problem on a software bug that was triggered when a customer changed a setting.

The issue lead caused outages for a number of highly-trafficked websites including The New York Times, Bloomberg News, the Financial Times, The Guardian and Reddit.

“We experienced a global outage due to an undiscovered software bug that surfaced on June 8 when it was triggered by a valid customer configuration change,” Nick Rockwell, Fastly’s senior vice president of engineering and infrastructure, said in a blog post late Tuesday.

Read the full article. The outage was initially feared to have been a ransomware attack because so many major media sites were affected.