Microsoft reports system wide Hotmail outage -isp sabotage?

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by car1edb | April 9, 2009 at 09:27 pm
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Worked ok today at 530pm pst... now it doesn't let me login or says I don't have an inbox, its not bouncing and vacation messages are still operational.

The sabotage slant is pretty worrying and how easy it is to disrupt major services (911, cell phone, public and private networks).

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The problem is related to the cutting of AT&T fiber-optic cables in Santa Clara County Thursday. A senior Microsoft engineer in Mountain View says they are working to restore service. Don't panic-- your inbox and stored messages have not been permanently deleted.
hotmail trouble report
Source: http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2009/04/09/windows-live-sign-in-problems.aspx

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Update 2:58 p.m. PDT: This story has been updated with information about what caused the massive phone and Internet outage in Silicon Valley on Thursday. Comments from Sprint Nextel have also been added. Vandals are to blame for the massive phone and Internet outage in Silicon Valley on Thursday, an AT&T representative has confirmed.
Marguerite Reardon
Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10216151-94.html

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Many users have been locked out of their accounts as problems with users inbox's seem to be inaccessible by any means. The problem appears to be system wide, as Microsoft reports on Twitter, stating "@MesaPink The issue will be resolved shortly sorry for the inconveinvce. It is system wide." Users are unable to access their inbox, as they attempt to login, they are given the error "You don't have an inbox...yet"
Andrew Lyle
Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/04/10/live-services-hit-with-outage-system-wide
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car1edb
car1edb

at 21:33 on April 9th, 2009

Oh they just fixed it!

twits:

  1. @MightyJohanna There was an issue with the Live ID service. Clear your cache and cookies and sign back in.1 minute ago from web in reply to MightyJohanna
  2. @im_jules Try to sign in again.3 minutes ago from web in reply to im_jules
  3. And we are back up!!!!!3 minutes ago from web


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car1edb
car1edb

at 21:49 on April 9th, 2009

 - yahoo is the best! glad they didn't sell out to google/ms not long ago.


Maybe something screwed up on the traffic routing/load balancing with hotmail servers from the outage. Who knows.

ATT tweets:

"CA Outage Update: ETA for full service restoration to affected customers in Santa Clara & San Jose areas is now 9 pm Pacific Time."

"AT&T offering $100,000 reward for info leading to arrest/conviction of those responsible for CA vandalism. Call 408-947-STOP"

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Amy Judd
Amy Judd

at 22:21 on April 9th, 2009

I just checked mine and it was good, thanks for this story though, wouldn't have heard about it otherwise.

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