Active Incident
Internet outage in Kuwait
Kuwait · June 20, 2026 · 40 minutes
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Kuwait. 4 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
73%
Anomaly Rate
4
Measurements
67%
Confidence
What This Means
73% of 4 network tests from Kuwait failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 70+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score67% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeJune 20, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (4)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis4 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Mubarak Al-Kabeer"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.98
Jun 20, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Al Asimah"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.98
Jun 20, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Al Ahmadi"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.47
Jun 20, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Mubarak Al-Kabeer"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.49
Jun 20, 2026
View source →What we cannot say
- Who caused it — measurement data alone does not attribute this to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- Intent — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- Which networks — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
- The mechanism — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, an HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
- Sub-national scope — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
- Independent corroboration — this rests on a single source; treat it as a single-source signal, not a multi-source confirmation.
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Internet outage in Kuwait [KW-2026-0160]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/KW-2026-0160
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