Google Outage Impacting Gmail and Google Drive

On August 8^th, Google suffered an outage that affected Gmail and Google Drive customers worldwide. When customers attempted to access their Google accounts, they were greeted with a message stating, ”Oops, something went wrong,” or could not hit send. At this point, Google is not claiming any cyber threat to its customers regarding this outage. Instead, Google reported, “The root cause was a latent misconfiguration of our lock-service infrastructure that impacted a critical storage layer during a high-load scenario.” Google has provided a full report on the Google Workspace Status Dashboard.

Eccezion Technology continues to monitor this Google outage and will provide any updates or additional information that Google provides. When in doubt, please do not hesitate to reach out to our Help Desk for assistance keeping you and your data safe.