(MENAFN) Millions of users across multiple countries, mainly in Southeast Europe, experienced a sudden disruption in accessing Google services on Thursday.

Data from DownDetector revealed a sharp increase in outage reports beginning at 10:00 a.m. local time (07:00 GMT), affecting platforms including YouTube, Gmail, Chrome, Maps, Google Translate, and others.

“There was a surge in reports starting at 7.10 GMT. During the outage, we received reports from Türkiye, Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, North Macedonia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and 16 other countries,” stated outage monitoring site Outage.Report.

Additionally, some users noted that the Swedish audio streaming giant Spotify appeared to be impacted by the same disruption.

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