Google Crash News 2020, Google Hacked, Youtube Crashed
Several Google services such as its email platform Gmail, Drive, Maps and YouTube are down for users worldwide, according to Down Detector.
According to the site, the issues started around 5 PM and have affected most, if not all services provided by Google, with thousands of user reports on services such as YouTube and Gmail.
Google family of apps has crashed around the world for thousands of users Problems first reported around 11:45am GMT and are concentrated in Europe But users in US, Australia, Asia, South America and Africa also reported issues The Google-owned family of apps has crashed for thousands of users worldwide.
Google Crash News 2020, Google Hacked, Youtube Crashed
This includes Gmail, Google Drive, Google Sheets and YouTube as well as the main search engine.
Google’s websites are some of the most popular in the world, with its video-streaming site YouTube frequented by more than two billion people every month.
Gmail meanwhile is the world’s most popular email platform with other 1.5 billion users.
Unlike other tech firms like Facebook, outages are rare at Google, and there is no explanation for the outage.
By 11:54am GMT there was more than 50,000 complaints for YouTube alone. with half (49 per cent) regarding issues with the website and 43 per cent pertaining to problems watching videos.
Gmail had 23,000 complaints before midday and Google’s main site had a reported 19,000 complaints.
Eighty-one and 91 per cent of the issues with these sites, respectively, was to do with logging in, according to DownDetector.
MailOnline has approached Google for comment.
Google Crash News 2020, Google Hacked, Youtube Crashed
YouTube’s ‘TeamYouTube’ Twitter account said: ‘We are aware that many of you are having issues accessing YouTube right now – our team is aware and looking into it. We’ll update you here as soon as we have more news.’
Google Crash News 2020, Google Hacked, Youtube Crashed
Google Crash News 2020, Google Hacked, Youtube Crashed
Google Crash News 2020, Google Hacked, Youtube Crashed