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Don’t blame the hackers.
Amazon.com (AMZN) said its websites in Europe suffered an outage of more than 30 minutes on Sunday night.
The online retailer said the outage was due to a “hardware failure” rather than a politically motivated cyber assault.
“The brief interruption to our European retail sites earlier today was due to hardware failure in our European datacenter network and…
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Amazon European Sites Suffer Outage Due to ‘Hardware Failure’ originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:46:00.
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