- Security
- By George Dascalu
- May 10th, 2021
Hacked Fuel Pipe Shutdown Leads to 1% Oil Price Increase
Colonial Pipeline was forced to take immediate action and shut down its operations after a cyberattack on Friday
- Google News
- By Marius Nestor
- January 30th, 2019
Google+ to Shut Down for Consumers on April 2, 2019
Some features will be terminated in the coming weeks
- Web / Internet Life
- By Marius Nestor
- May 4th, 2018
Cambridge Analytica Closes Doors After Facebook Scandal, Lives on as Emerdata
British parent SCL Elections Ltd. also shuts down
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 2nd, 2016
Neutrino Exploit Kit Activity Slows Down to a Trickle
Is Neutrino shutting down or going private?
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 29th, 2016
Bitter Ransomware Operator Shuts Down Service and Deletes Decryption Master Key
Misconfigured server led to Encryptor RaaS' downfall
- Digital Rights/Piracy
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 18th, 2016
TorrentHound Piracy Portal Shuts Down, Third Major Site in 3 Months
Third portal after Kickass Torrents and Torrentz.eu
- Digital Rights/Piracy
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 5th, 2016
Torrentz.eu Search Engine Mysteriously Shuts Down
Homepage features goodbye message to its users
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 2nd, 2016
GhostMail Shuts Down, Says "the World Has Changed for the Worse"
Company moves operations to the enterprise sector only
- Yahoo News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 11th, 2016
Yahoo Shuts Down Messenger Desktop App to Focus on Web, Android & iOS Versions
Yahoo! users won't be able to log in via Yahoo Messenger desktop clients starting with August 5, 2016
- Internet Life
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 17th, 2016
Iraq Shuts Down Internet for Entire Country to Prevent Exam Cheating
It sounds like a joke, but it isn't, major ISPs confirm
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 3rd, 2016
PwnedList Shuts Down Because of Security Bug That Exposed Details for 866M Users
Database of pwned users gets pwned and then rage quits
- Yahoo News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 11th, 2016
Yahoo Games to Shut Down After Nearly Two Decades
Service was dead anyway, despite its long history
- Internet Life
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 4th, 2015
MPAA Takes Credit for Shutting Down YIFY (YTS) and Popcorn Time
2 well-timed lawsuits were enough to bring the services down
- Google News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 24th, 2015
Google Code Enters Read-Only Stage, Move Your Projects to GitHub While You Still Can
GitLab, Bitbucket, and SourceForge export tools are also available, just in case you don't like GitHub
- Google News
- By Andreea Murgu
- May 7th, 2015
Google Ventures Frowns Upon Secret Shutdown
The Google executive does not approve of the closure
- Games
- By Radu Haulica
- April 3rd, 2015
OnLive Is Shutting Down Its Cloud Gaming Service at the End of April
Sony is acquiring all the company's assets
- Google News
- By Alexandra Arici
- February 9th, 2015
Google Shutting Down Gtalk on February 16, Forcing Users to Move to Hangouts
Google hopes Hangouts will become more popular this way