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Originally Posted by motherflippinpicker

For weeks, parts of the Internet have been down. We own an e-commerce business and have been struggling through the random outages. Yesterday it was Amazon seller central and PayPal.

My mom has been trying to get her TSA clearance for 3 weeks but couldn't due to the government's internal software not working. She also couldn't get a new phone last week because Verizon was down.

I think we are under some kind of cyber attack. This has been going on for weeks. If our livelihood wasn't reliant on the web, I probably wouldn't notice.

It’s solar activity, the activity on the sun is extremely dynamic right now. There are many articles on it. I’ll try and be as neutral as possible with this PBS citation LOL

The sun is super active right now. Here’s how it can affect electronics on Earth | PBS News Weekend