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Apple Online Store Suffers from Outage

Apple’s online store, “store.apple.com” appears to be down this morning for users across the world, indicating that Apple is suffering from some technical difficulties. Typically, if the Apple store is performing an update or preparing to launch new products, users would be greeted with a message letting them know—today users just can’t reach the site at all.

Apple’s online store, “store.apple.com” appears to be down this morning for users across the world, indicating that Apple is suffering from some technical difficulties. Typically, if the Apple store is performing an update or preparing to launch new products, users would be greeted with a message letting them know—today users just can’t reach the site at all.

Update: 11:13AM EST: The online store appears to be back up and accessible. Still waiting for comment from Apple.

Store.Apple.Com OutageThere is a possibility that the site could be under a DDoS attack, but Apple has a fairly solid infrastructure in place so it’s unlikely that a DOS attack is the reason for the site being in accessible this morning.

Users from around the world commented via Twitter on the site being inaccessible, and SecurityWeek has confirmed with several people from different locations, all noting that the site was down, with no error message.

A traceroute from my location shows a network timeout after the hop “apple-compu.edge2.sanjose1.level3.net”. 

We have reached out for Apple for comment and will update this story accordingly, though Apple is notorious for not responding to media inquiries in a timely manner, if at all.

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For more than 15 years, Mike Lennon has been closely monitoring the threat landscape and analyzing trends in the National Security and enterprise cybersecurity space. In his role at SecurityWeek, he oversees the editorial direction of the publication and is the Director of several leading security industry conferences around the world.

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