Amazon hacked? Major outage amid Iran tensions raises cyberattack questions; ‘When will it be back up?’

Amazon outage update: Popular e-commerce platform Amazon was down for thousands of users in the US on Thursday. Downdetector, a platform that tracks online outages, showed at least 22,000 reports about issues on Amazon at the time of writing this story. The actual number of affected users may vary.

Users on social media flagged issues with logging in, checking out, and browsing products on the company’s website.