Photographer: Hollie Adams / Bloomberg
Photographer: Hollie Adams / Bloomberg
Google has diagnosed a spread pause which removed major services earlier this week, such as Gmail and YouTube, as a mistake with its online person identification system.
Google Alphabet Inc. it has several tools that allow it to check and track connected users. In October, the company began moving these tools to a new file storage system and, in the process, misreported portions of the data, according to a Friday’s post. This caused several of his services to go down on Monday morning for 47 minutes, a rare technical step.
Google’s explanation comes amid increased cyber security vigilance. A hack on software provider SolarWinds Corp. exposed companies, including Microsoft Corp. and more US government agencies. A Google spokeswoman said on Friday that the internet giant had found no evidence that the SolarWinds hack had affected Alphabet or Google systems.
Google services, including Gmail, YouTube Suffer Major Pause
About 15% of requests sent to Google’s cloud storage service were discontinued on Monday pause, said the company. The cloud division offers an identification service similar to that of Okta Inc.
On Tuesday, the Google Gmail service had another interruption. The company attributed this to a problem with data migration.