Popular websites including Twitch and a host of news websites including the New York Times and the Guardian went down on Tuesday.
Others including news publisher CNN, social media website Reddit and the British government site gov.uk were also inaccessible. The cause of the outage is unclear, but cybersecurity researcher Mikko Hyppönen pointed to problems at Fastly, a cloud services provider, whose own website was also inaccessible.
The company’s status page could be accessed, and it said there an problem with its “content delivery” network services, referring to its network of data centers and servers, at 11:58 a.m. Brussels time.
“The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented,” the company said.
