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<\/p>\nTens of thousands of Vodafone users are reporting problems with their internet<\/p>\n
The outages began on Monday afternoon, according to the monitoring website DownDetector, which reported more than 130,000 issues with Vodafone connections.<\/p>\n
A spokeswoman for the company said: “We are aware of a major issue on our network currently affecting broadband, 4G and 5G services.<\/p>\n
“We appreciate our customers’ patience while we work to resolve this as soon as possible.”<\/p>\n
The company has more than 18 million UK customers, with nearly 700,000 of those using Vodafone’s home broadband connection.<\/p>\n
Vodafone users vented their frustration on social media.<\/p>\n
“It’s like Vodafone has just been wiped off the earth. Not a single thing works,” said one X user.<\/p>\n
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\n Vodafone users were shown an error message when trying to access the internet provider’s app<\/p>\n
The Vodafone app also appeared to be down for users, with the company’s website briefly going down too.<\/p>\n
The ‘network status checker’ on the website was also down, and when Sky News tried to test the customer helpline, it did not ring.<\/p>\n
“There’s Vodafone down and then there’s Vodafone wiped off the face of the f***ing planet,” posted another X user.<\/p>\n
Read more from Sky News: Jake Moore, global cybersecurity advisor at ESET, said the outage shows how reliant we are on modern infrastructure like mobile networks.<\/p>\n “Outages will always naturally raise early suspicions of a potential cyber incident, though current evidence points more towards an internal network failure than a confirmed attack,” said Mr Moore.<\/p>\n “The sudden outage, combined with the inability to access customer service lines, mirrors classic symptoms of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, where attackers overwhelm the network so the site or systems collapse.<\/p>\n “However, malicious or not, this once again highlights our heavy reliance on digital infrastructure, especially in an age where we increasingly depend on mobile networks for everything,” he said.<\/p>\n “Ultimately, resilience is essential, whether the cause is a direct cyberattack, a supply chain issue or a critical internal error.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands of Vodafone users are reporting problems with their internet The outages began on Monday afternoon,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-222330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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