Shopify, which operates about 12% of online commerce in the United States, experienced a significant outage affecting merchants and major brands such as Netflix, Mattel, Converse, Reebok, Barnes & Noble, Nestle, Supreme, and Glossier during peak Cyber Monday shopping.Thousands of users reported problems with login, checkout, and point-of-sale systems as Shopify worked to resolve the issues throughout the day.The company announced that authentication issues were fixed and services were recovering while underscoring its critical role for businesses during record online holiday sales projected at $14.2 billion by
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