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  • Power Outrage Leaves Over 10 Million People Without Electricity

    Thousands of households in Mexico had to live without electricity for two hours on December 28 after a power outage disrupted the country’s electricity network.  In an online statement, National Electricity Utility (CFE) stated that over 10.3 million people were affected by Monday’s power cut. The national power company added that at 2:52 p.m. the restoration of affected users began and is subject to the instructions of the National Energy Control Commission (Cenace), which must guarantee the security of the National Electric System. 

    Cenace reported that the reason for the blackout that is affecting several states in the country is that at 2:28 p.m. (Central Time) there was an imbalance in the National Interconnected System, between charging and power generation, causing a loss of approximately 7,500 MW. The National Interconnected System (SIN) is the main electrical system of Mexico and geographically covers cities of Puerto Peñasco, Sonora to Cozumel, Quintana Roo.

  • RBI bars HDFC Bank from issuing new credit cards, halts digital launches

    The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed restrictions on the HDFC Bank following recent outages in internet and mobile banking.
    The banking regulator has also asked the private lender to halt all its digital launches under Digital 2.0 plan.

    “We wish to inform you that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued an Order dated December 02, 2020 (“Order”) to HDFC Bank Limited (the “Bank”) with regard to certain incidents of outages in the internet banking/ mobile banking/ payment utilities of the Bank over the past 2 years, including the recent outages in the Bank’s internet banking and payment system on November 21, 2020 due to a power failure in the primary data centre,” the private sector lender infored exchanges on Thursday.


    The bank said in a statement on Thursday that it has taken several measures to fortify its IT systems over the last two years and will continue to work swiftly to close out the balance. It will also continue to engage with the RBI in this regard.

    “The bank has been taking conscious, concrete steps to remedy the recent outages on its digital banking channels and assures its customers that it expects the current supervisory actions will have no impact on its existing credit cards, digital banking channels and existing operations,” it said.

    HDFC bank shares plunged on the stock markets after this news broke. Its shares tanked by 1% to an intraday low of 1388 from 1432 points.

  • YouTube Was Down Globally Earlier Today, Outage Map Shows Major Impact in North America

    Google-owned video streaming giant YouTube faced a global outage earlier in the day today due to some issue which seems to have been fixed since then. It is not known what caused the outage but the live map on outage tracking website Downdetector.com shows that the major effect was in North America, with parts of Europe, Asia, and Australia also witnessing issues with YouTube. Reports said that YouTube was down for about an hour.

    According to user reports on social media, YouTube was not able to play videos during the outage and showed an error saying, “an error occurred. Please try again later.” YouTube itself took notice of user reports on social media, as the company sent out a tweet from its official Twitter handle, saying that it has taken notice and is working on a fix. “If you’re having trouble watching videos on YouTube right now, you’re not alone – our team is aware of the issue and working on a fix. We’ll follow up here with any updates,” Team YouTube said in a Tweet. About two hours later, the company said that YouTube services are back up and running, further apologising for the interruption.

    According to Downdetector.com, the maximum number of outage reports came in at around 6:39AM IST with as many as 3,500 users reporting that YouTube is down. Reports online have also said that the outage also affected other services that use the YouTube infrastructure like YouTube TV and movies and TV shows purchased via Google TV. At this moment, it seems that the issue was only with YouTube and no other Google service.