Wall Street Journal Crashes at the Worst Possible Time
Posted in: UncategorizedSoon after apparently unrelated tech problems temporarily grounded United Airlines’ fleet and led the New York Stock Exchange to abruptly freeze trading on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal also found itself failing. The newspaper’s website was down for about an hour, without explanation, starting around 12:15, just as readers were arriving to find out about the meltdowns in business and finance elsewhere.
Speculation on aspects of the downward spiral ranged from cyberattacks, naturally, to fallout from China’s month-long stock market decline or even Greek’s blossoming financial crisis.
None of the affected companies said any kind of hacking played a part. United Airlines said its U.S. departure flights had been grounded after a “network connectivity issue this morning.” Inconvencienced fliers of course took flight on Twitter:
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