⚠️ Update: Further internet outages have been registered in Florida and Alabama after the landfall of Hurricane Isaias near Destin, now a post-tropical cyclone, causing damage to infrastructure and widespread power outages 🔌 #FLwx
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⚠️ Update: Further internet outages have been registered in Florida and Alabama after the landfall of Hurricane Isaias near Destin, now a post-tropical cyclone, causing damage to infrastructure and widespread power outages 🔌 #FLwx
⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a decline in internet connectivity in parts of Florida as Category 3 Hurricane #Isaias nears landfall; the incident corresponds to reports of heavy winds and downed lines, leaving hundreds of thousands without power and telecoms 🌀
⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a disruption to internet connectivity in #Panama after a ~7.7 magnitude earthquake, with tsunami alerts being issued for several countries on the southern Pacific coast
⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a significant disruption to the network of Russian internet and cloud giant Yandex. Reports indicate a major fire at one of the company's data centers in Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast, #Russia, after a Ukrainian drone attack campaign.
⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a decline in internet connectivity in parts of Kyiv, #Ukraine, after a series of Russian drone attacks targeting energy infrastructure, followed by emergency power shutdowns 🔌 📉
⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show disruptions to internet connectivity in Kyiv and Zhytomyr Oblasts, #Ukraine, corresponding to emergency power shutdowns after a series of Russian missile and drone attacks target energy infrastructure, a hallmark of Russia's winter warfare strategy 🔌
⚠️ Update: Russia's spate of drone attacks on Ukraine data centers continues, with a new disruption identified to the network of DreamLine colocation provider corresponding to reports and footage of the struck premises emerging from Kyiv
⚠️ Update: Russia's drone campaign targeting Ukraine data centers has continued, with a new attack on Omega Telecom's facilities in Kyiv, which the Russian MoD claims is involved in the supply of networking and database storage to the Ukrainian Armed Forces
⚠️ Update: Metrics show a new disruption on the network of Cosmonova after a Russian drone attack on the company's data center in Kyiv, which the Russian MoD claims is linked to the supply of Starlink communications to Ukraine's military.
⚠️ Update: Metrics show that Russia's bombardment of Ukraine data centers has continued, with new disruptions observed on networks downstream of Datagroup earlier today, marking a new focus on the disruption of digital infrastructure
⚠️ Confirmed: Network data indicate a subnational internet disruption in northern #Ethiopia corresponding to reports of a telecoms blackout in #Tigray. The incident comes amid escalating conflict between Tigrayan forces and the national army 📉
ℹ️ ICYMI: At least four Kyiv internet providers and their downstreams serving #Ukraine experienced a partial loss of connectivity on Wednesday morning; the disruptions are linked to Russian drone attacks targeting data centers allegedly used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine
⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a decline in internet connectivity in Odesa, #Ukraine, corresponding to power outages following Russian missile attacks on port and transport infrastructure 📉
⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a major disruption to internet connectivity in Donetsk Oblast, Russian-occupied #Ukraine, corresponding to local reports of a widespread power and telecoms outage 📉
⚠️ Confirmed: Analysis of network data shows a significant decline in internet traffic in #Cuba corresponding to reports of a nation-scale power blackout. The incident is the latest in series of widespread outages triggered by a months-long US oil blockade
ℹ️ Confirmed: Network data show a brief disruption to leading internet provider MEO in #Portugal, corroborating user reports of a short but widespread outage affecting broadband and mobile service; the operator has not issued an explanation 📉
⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a decline in internet connectivity in parts of #Michigan including Detroit after severe storms bring down utility polls, leaving many residents cut off 📉 #MIwx
⚠️ Confirmed: A power outage has knocked out internet connectivity across much of Donbas, Russian-occupied #Ukraine; the losses in service are attributed to Ukrainian UAV attacks targeting a thermal power plant in Luhansk Oblast 🔌
⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a sudden decline in internet connectivity across Russian-controlled Crimea with high impact to Sevastopol and Simferopol corresponding to a power blackout after overnight Ukrainian drone attacks targeting energy infrastructure 🔌
⚠️ Update: Live metrics show internet disruptions have expanded across #Hawaii to impact the capital Honolulu as Hurricane Lala skirts the archipelago, corresponding to widespread power outages that have left hundreds of thousands without electricity 🔌 #HIwx