BREAKING NEWS: Major outage hits websites of UPS, Costco, Airbnb, US Bank and airlines as 911 services go down in multiple East Coast cities
A major internet outage has affected the websites of major retail, financial, logistics and travel websites, and appears to be affecting 911 services in several areas.

Down Detector, a service that detects whether websites are working properly or not, began reporting a series of at least 50 major website outages shortly before 12pm EST on Thursday.

Among the potentially affected websites were Costco, Airbnb, US Bank, UPS, Fox News, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, AT&T, Groupon, Expedia, HBO Max and TikTok, according to Down Detector.
The filings page of the US Securities and Exchange Commission also displayed a message saying that it was 'temporarily unavailable'.
A number of global financial institutions also appeared to be impacted, including Interactive Brokers, Santander Bank, BBVA and BB&T.

Down Detector tweeted that Amazon Web Services and Oracle Cloud are also having problems, but the Amazon Web Services website appeared to be working normally.

Other websites that were impacted included Microsoft, Evernote, Go Daddy, Vanguard and a number of other tech or financial-centric domains.

Akamai Technologies, a global content delivery network that provides backbone internet services, said in a statement that it is 'aware of an emerging issue with the Edge DNS service.'

In an update at 12.47pm, the company said: 'We have implemented a fix for this issue, and based on current observations, the service is resuming normal operations.'

We will continue to monitor to ensure that the impact has been fully mitigated,' Akamai added in the statement.
Meanwhile, at least nine counties and three cities in Virginia reported 911 outages or call issues on Thursday.

'There appears to be a multi-state 911 outage. The issue is being addressed,' the Rockbridge County Fire-Rescue & Emergency Management said in a statement.

In Campbell County, Virginia, the Department of Public Safety said all service to the county’s E-911 and non-emergency phone lines has been disrupted.

It was unclear whether the emergency services outage was related to the internet issues, with WSET-TV reporting that a cut fiber optic cable in Greyson County was potentially to blame.

The Greyson County Sheriff's Office said that CenturyLink was working to restore the cut fiber in the Marion area.

Developing story, more to follow.

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...fiber optic cable ...?