Hackers were not the reason you couldn't watch Netflix

After an excruciating 90-minute outage that affected all streaming platforms in the U.S. Thursday afternoon, order has been restored to the world and millions of Netflix users are happily binge-watching once again.

As for the cause of the failure, a representative for the content delivery service that powers Netflix, UltraDNS, told the New York Times that an internal server issue was to blame.

The confirmation came after many people, and even the company itself, speculated that hackers might have been behind the outage. Employees initially believed UltraDNS had been the target of a Denial of Service attack, in which a service is intentionally flooded with traffic until it becomes overloaded, but this turned out not to be the case, UltraDNS spokeswoman Lara Wyss told theTimes.

We're aware that members are experiencing issues streaming on all devices. We're working to resolve the problem.

— Netflix CS (@Netflixhelps) October 15, 2015

Disruptions were also reported with the websites of Expedia, Ameritrade, Uber and BBC, among others, however it has not been confirmed whether all of these incidents were related to the UltraDNS outage, AFP reported.

Although the East Coast server responsible for the outage was malfunctioning for less than two hours, that still gave people plenty of time to air their complaints on Twitter.

But on the bright side, the harrowing Netflix-less 90 minutes seemed to have served as a bonding experience for some.

*goes on Twitter to check if Netflix isn't working for anyone else* *sees that it's down for everyone* *doesn't feel so alone*

— spooky fallon (@fallonpunch) October 15, 2015

*checks twitter to see if anyone elses netflix is down and im not doing something wrong*

— Hannah (@talkt0theHANd) October 15, 2015

Strange feeling of community when #netflix is down around the world.#netflixdown

— Emma Herlin (@EmmaHerlin) October 15, 2015

That's enough social interaction for one day — now back to your regularly scheduled Netflix-ing.

Streaming issues have now been resolved— Apologies for the disruption and appreciate everyone's patience! Back to binging!

— Netflix US (@netflix) October 15, 2015

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