Massive Verizon outage impacts customers in Northeast and Midwest

Photo by: Verizon
Photo by: Verizon

(New York, NY) -- A major Verizon Fios outage was impacting customers overnight into Thursday morning in parts of the East Coast and Midwest.

Customers reported internet outages in New York, New Jersey, Boston, Chicago, and Madison, Wisconsin. Some have reported service is starting to return, but there were considerable issues for at least more than two hours in some areas.

Verizon officials say they are aware of the problem and working on it.