Google experienced a global authentication outage Monday morning, impacting all of its services, including Gmail.
At 7:26 a.m., Google confirmed all of its services were down.
Tens of thousands of complaints popped up around 7 a.m. EDT along the East Coast of the U.S. The vast majority of those people, about 90%, could not log in, according to DownDetector.com, which showed a massive spike in outages beginning at that time.
The problem appeared to cleared up just before 8 a.m.
“The problem with Gmail should be resolved for the vast majority of affected users,” said Google’s parent company, Alphabet, at 7:52 a.m.. “We will continue to work towards restoring service for the remaining affected users.”
Downdetector, which tracks website outages, reported the problem affected users across the world, but appeared especially widespread in the northeastern U.S., Britain and other parts of Europe. Japan, Malaysia and India also looked to be more affected. However, by 7:40 a.m., Google seemed to have restored all of its services.
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