January 2026 - Outages - Outages Lists

Apparently Equifax is down for consumers and businesses.
by Chapman, Brad (NBCUniversal) 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

I was ordering fiber optic internet from Frontier Communications—my doctor said I should consume more fiber—but their system said my credit check failed and was demanding an equipment deposit. I pushed back. They ran it three times. Then they got word in a group chat that Equifax’s consumer and business portals are down, so they can’t process any credit checks. Woe be unto you if you work in finance or support a business that depends on this service. I hope they didn’t have another breach. Maybe they will need a tiny excavator to dig them out of this mess like that freighter stuck in the Suez canal<https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/mcw8og/new_pictures_f…> for the last two days... Cheers, Brad

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Gmail partial outage
by Kevin Day 24 Jan '26

24 Jan '26

For the last few hours, we've seen reports from multiple users as well as Reddit threads and a huge spike on Downdetector about Gmail.com and enterprise Workspace email. The symptoms being reported are: * Spam detection appears to be broken, with obvious spam and phishing emails appearing in user's inboxes with the message "Be careful with this message. Gmail hasn't scanned this message for spam, unverified senders, or harmful software." * Obviously legitimate emails being put in the Spam folder * Rules not being applied, or inconsistently applied * Inbound and outbound emails being delayed 10-15 minutes, with duplicates being sent or received. * Users being redirected to a "Verify It's You" 2FA screen on login, but being given no options to authenticate themselves, or app specific passwords suddenly not working. https://old.reddit.com/r/GMail/comments/1qln9zp/gmail_not_filtering_promoti… Approximately 5 hours after this started, Google updated their dashboard with: https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/NNnDkY9CJ36annsfytjQ --- Gmail users might see banners indicating missing spam checks. We are experiencing an issue with Gmail beginning on Saturday, 2026-01-24 05:02 US/Pacific. Users might experience the following banner: “Be careful with this message. Gmail hasn't scanned this message for spam, unverified senders, or harmful software.” We advise the users to be extra diligent in lieu of missing spam checks. Our engineering team is investigating the issue. ---

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Comms outages / Verizon+?
by Andy Jabbour 16 Jan '26

16 Jan '26

Open source: Verizon is down, with many users seeing 'SOS' – here's everything we know about this outage https://www.techradar.com/news/live/verizon-outage-january-2026 Talk of it being more broad. - andy

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Re: Comms outages / Verizon+?
by Douglas Haber 14 Jan '26

14 Jan '26

It’s definitely broad. People all I know all over New England are having issues myself included, and several friends in Florida the same. Doug

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Verizon Wireless down in NY and CLT
by Everett Cooley 14 Jan '26

14 Jan '26

Verizon Wireless down in NY (western) and CLT. Phone showing "SOS"

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