The Internet has been hit by a global outage as sites including Fortnite, Delta Airlines, Amazon, AirBnb, BA, and major banks went down.
Shoppers and workers across the world were left livid after they could not connect to thousands of websites for on Thursday evening due to a problem with content delivery network Akamai.
Akamai is a content delivery network that connects other companies to the internet, and says that a cyber attack was not behind the outage at its Edge Domain Name Service platform.
A Domain Name Service works as a kind of phone book for the internet and lets browsers find websites.
Akamai blamed a software update for causing the outage and the sites were working as normal this evening.
Among the sites affected were the The Playstation Network, Call of Duty, Fifa and EA were all reported to have had issues.
Meanwhile major banks including HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds Bank, Halifax, TSB, Tesco Bank, and the Bank of Scotland were beset by problems.
And shoppers also vented on social media they were struggling to access Argos, McDonald's, John Lewis, eBay and Costco.
The mass outage comes just a month after another massive internet blackout brought down hundreds of websites across the world.
CNN, The New York Times, Amazon, Shopify, PayPal, Reddit, the White House and British Government lost service after a 'service configuration' at their server provider Fastly.
The outage has since been blamed on a single unnamed IT customer.
Downdetector, an independent outage monitor website, reported today's stream of complaints about websites from about 5pm on Thursday.
It listed nearly 50 sites that customers were having trouble with in London.
It found tens of thousands of issues with ones in the capital but is believed to be affecting customers across the country and world.
The monitor pointed to AWS, although Amazon told MailOnline 'it has investigated and AWS services are all operating normally'.
Major content delivery network Akamai, which provides domain name system services, said it was experiencing problems and appeared to shoulder the blame tonight.
Many of the affected websites are featured on its customers page.
The Internet has been hit by a mystery global outage as sites including Fortnite, Delta Airlines, Amazon, AirBnb, BA, and major banks went down
Gamers, shoppers and workers across the world were left livid after they could not connect to at least 48 websites on Thursday evening
The Playstation Network, Call of Duty, Fifa and EA were all reported to have had issues
Meanwhile major banks including HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds Bank, Halifax, TSB, Tesco Bank, and the Bank of Scotland were beset by issues
The mass outage comes just a month after some of Australia's major websites - including from various media outlets - crashed
