Google mail and application services ‘disrupted,’ cause and extent unknown

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Google’s mail and application services are unavailable to some users.

Google’s apps status dashboard shows that its Mail, Drive file storage service and office-application services are “disrupted.”

Its administrator control panel, which lets companies manage their Google applications, is completely down.

The disruptions started affecting people worldwide around 8 a.m. Eastern time.

Google Inc. did not immediately respond to questions about the cause of the outage and how many people were affected.

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