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Has any billion dollar company ever been down for 2 days? Or is this the highscore?
by TekMol 5y ago
Has any billion dollar company ever been down for 2 days?
Or is this the highscore?
- jlokier 5y agoTesco online grocery shopping in the UK was down for about 2 days recently, and Tesco as a whole has a market cap of $29.1B.
- TekMol 5y agoDid they publish what happened?
- omnicognate 5y agoThey claimed it was an attack (an "attempt to interfere with our systems") but haven't given any details.
- mysterydip 5y agoI assume you could still go in the store and get groceries though, right? Not familiar if they're online-only right now.
- arichard123 5y agoYes, Tesco was basically open the whole time.
- cinntaile 5y agoThe supermarket chain Coop in Sweden was down longer than 2 days. They closed their shops during the ransomware attack. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57707530 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57707530
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- sithlord 5y agoI dont remember how long Garmin was down, but I feel like it had to have been close!
- grayfaced 5y agoNotpetya really hindered operations for some companies of that size. Depends on how you define an outage.
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- wodenokoto 5y agoMaersk had their entire computer infrastructure down for 9 days. https://www.i-cio.com/management/insight/item/maersk-springing-back-from-a-catastrophic-cyber-attack https://www.i-cio.com/management/insight/item/maersk-springi...
- isiahl 5y agoHow long was the Playststion Network down for in like 2011? Around a week?
- flutas 5y agoAccording to Wikipedia (and from my memory of how long it felt like it lasted) 23 days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_PlayStation_Network_outage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_PlayStation_Network_outag...
- firecall 5y agoI was reminded of the early days of Twitter and the FailWhale! But I don't think they ever went down for two days? But certainly Twitter were notorious for regular outages!
- gpm 5y agoColonial Pipeline was down for five days after a ransomware attack, you may remember the gas hording that was occurring back in May as a result... and the many ridiculous videos on the internet of people doing things like trying to fill up the back of pickup trucks with gas.
- exikyut 5y agoSaudi Aramco is estimated to be worth $2t-$10t (it's privately held, so noone knows) and 35,000 of their computers got their MBRs and MFTs (extrapolating) nuked in a political sting operation in 2012. It's handwavily rumored the HDD supply chain shortages at the time (remember the floods in Thailand?) were partially from Saudi Aramco momentarily redirecting chunks of the world's HDD manufacturing capacity to fix it. https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/30/ https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/30/ "Shamoon" (the epsiode about this, which says it depends on the previous two episodes) https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/28/ https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/28/ "Unit 8200" https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/29/ https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/29/ "Stuxnet"
- tentacleuno 5y agoWhat about Currys? They always seem to be down when I need to use their website.