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Less than 36 hours after Monday’s record blackout, serious problems remain for Google: Gmail, the Mountain View giant’s email service, is down. There are dozens of reports on the internet of users unable to receive emails or seeing letters sent to addresses @ gmail.com returned to sender.
“We are aware of an issue with Gmail affecting a significant number of users,” reads Google’s status dashboard, indicating that no other services are affected by the issue apart from Gmail. “Affected users can log into Gmail, but there are error messages, high latency episodes, or other unexpected behavior.”
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by Arturo de Corinto
On Monday, a global downtime of a few hours affected the entire Google ecosystem, from Gmail to YouTube, from remote learning Classroom to online meetings, but also buying apps from the Play Store, video games from Stadia and Nest Smart Home. “An authentication problem, solved,” explained the company. But it is not excluded that the unprecedented malfunction in Google’s history may be linked in some way to hacker attacks that have targeted some global realities, such as the one launched in recent hours to various federal agencies in the United States.
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“We ran into an authentication system outage that lasted about 45 minutes due to an internal problem with the ‘storage quota’,” a company spokesperson said yesterday. “Services that require users to log in experienced a high error rate during that time. The issue was resolved at 4:32 am PT (13:32 GMT), all services restored. We apologize to all. Affected users We will conduct a thorough review to ensure that it cannot be repeated in the future. “
The causes of today’s new blackout are still unknown.
