LinkedIn recovers from worldwide outage

As if falling like social media dominos, LinkedIn’s site went offline for thousands of users around the world just a day after Meta’s network outage prevented access to Facebook and Instagram.

Based on reports on DownDetector, the outage began at roughly 7:30am this morning (7 March 2024) and affected both the platform’s website and app, restricting access to messaging, job listings, posts, profiles, résumés, and more.

The outage peaked at almost 45,000 outage reports in the US alone, while in Australia, reports reached as near as makes no difference, 1,900.

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LinkedIn was quick to confirm the outage, posting a notice on its LinkedIn Help X page.

It’s not you, it’s us. You may be experiencing issues when you try to visit LinkedIn. Our teams are working to resolve this and you can check for updates on our Status Page: https://t.co/JQdDeX7GJQ
— LinkedIn Help (@LinkedInHelp) March 6, 2024

However, within an hour later, the platform confirmed that its operations had returned to normal.

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“Sorry about the interruption. We’re back up and running,” it wrote.

Neither LinkedIn nor its parent company Microsoft have commented on the cause of the outage, and there is no sign that the outage has any connections to Meta’s outage yesterday, which was claimed by a trio of threat actors – SkyNet, Godzilla and Anonymous Sudan.

No bad actors have claimed responsibility for the LinkedIn outage.

Daniel Croft

Born in the heart of Western Sydney, Daniel Croft is a passionate journalist with an understanding for and experience writing in the technology space. Having studied at Macquarie University, he joined Momentum Media in 2022, writing across a number of publications including Australian Aviation, Cyber Security Connect and Defence Connect. Outside of writing, Daniel has a keen interest in music, and spends his time playing in bands around Sydney.

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