Google outage due to internal technical fault, company says PA 14 December 2020, 6:56 pm Google has confirmed the worldwide service outage on Monday was caused by a technical fault inside its own systems. The technology giant saw all its major apps, including YouTube and Gmail, go offline on Monday morning, leaving millions unable to access key services. The company said the outage had occurred within its authentication system, which is used to log people into their accounts, due to an “internal storage quota issue” and apologised to users. “Today, at 3:47AM PT Google experienced an authentication system outage for approximately 45 minutes due to an internal storage quota issue. Services requiring users to log in experienced high error rates during this period,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement.