> just temporary halt new account registration I'm confused; how do you know these companies did not do that? In my experience even small companies will typic

> just temporary halt new account registration I'm confused; how do you know these companies did not do that? In my experience even small companies will typically abstract away a third party service so that if it does fail it fails in an expected way. What you seem to be suggesting is that all of the companies failed in expected ways. I didn't see that in any of the articles. Did you have a source? I'm curious if it hit some harder than others.