Is Slack Down? Colossal Outage Affects Millions on First Work Day of 2021

Slack has been hit a massive outage just as millions of people get back to work after the festive break.

Tracking website Down Detector showed a spike in problems with the workplace messaging app as thousands of people across the world reported issues.

Users were unable to connect to the app, send or receive messages, or share files on the first work day of 2021.

Slack wrote a statement on Twitter apologising for the disruption, saying: “Customers may be experiencing issues connecting and using Slack at this time. Our team is currently investigating and we’re sorry for any troubles this may be causing.”

In this photo illustration, a young man is using an iPhone as he uses Slack on January 11, 2018 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. S3studio/Getty Images

To individual customers, it replied: “Our sincere apologies for interrupting your day. We’re working on getting things back to normal as soon as possible.”

Millions of workers and businesses have been relying on the app to communicate across the world as people work from home during the coronavirus pandemic.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated when additional information is available.