Zoom Outage Disrupts 65,000 Users Across U.S.

On Wednesday afternoon, Zoom experienced a major outage affecting over 65,000 users across the United States, with Downdetector reporting a peak in incidents around 3 p.m. ET. The outage disrupted Zoom's website, app, and login functionality, and some users encountered 'bad gateway' errors. Zoom acknowledged the incident, citing domain name resolution problems, and began restoring service within a few hours, advising users to flush their DNS cache if issues persisted. While a hacker group claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack, this has not been independently verified, and the official cause remains unconfirmed. The outage sparked a flurry of social media activity as workers and students reacted with both frustration and humor. The incident coincided with a separate Spotify outage that was also resolved within hours.