Home security firm Ring experienced significant outages with several of its app functions on Friday, sparking a flurry of concerns from customers.
Some users took to social media, speculating that the company might have been hacked. Ring was bombarded on Twitter during the afternoon outage by frustrated customers seeking answers.
Customers are experiencing outages across nationwide even as far as the UK:
BREAKING: RING experiencing a massive outage. No access to security cams or systems! Accounts not allowing sign in!!!https://t.co/ZW492TgrgE https://t.co/rUqppxLsCn pic.twitter.com/yKOBIWuC22
— We Know Your Game 🧙♀️ (@WeKnow_1234) July 28, 2023
Huge outage! I’ve even seen reports from the UK so not just the US. https://t.co/gqTJbOFyZr pic.twitter.com/7sg7oDLXZx
— Casey (@CaseyB_MN) July 28, 2023
Major outage at Ring, feels like a complete DOS, highly unusual and concerning @ring in meltdown, no support pic.twitter.com/eKvOwGeWE3
— Moneypenny (@nic_moneypenny) July 28, 2023
Yowzer! @ring having a MAJOR network outage right now… almost every aspect of the service is kaput… https://t.co/FW2Myx5ntu #Ring pic.twitter.com/rwKde0E4ee
— Simon Thompson (@ShowbizSimon) July 28, 2023
The company issued a status alert confirming that some users were unable to load the Ring app, citing “major” outages on Ring.com and for live calls.
Ring is not the only company experience wide spread outages, Frontier Communications internet has also been having issues today:
With all the concerns of power, communications, internet outages and the like, many are deeply concerned and on edge of what to expect in the days to come.
