I don’t read that “newspaper” but it seems to have been n issue with Apple Pay according to Apple’s status page.
What a useful phrase “could be” is to a journalist
I’m surprised they stopped at 500 million. If they just generalized “services” a bit, they could triple that.
Me too, the Daily Mail is a Xenophbic, right leaning rag.
Knowing that it is a major outage is useful information. If it is “world wide” that’s good news, Apple will have “all hands on deck” getting things fixed. 
If it was just me with a problem?
Hold on there, young feller-me-lad!
That organ may be a xenophobic, right-wing rag publishing a string of racist and islamophobic stories, inventing scandalous fictions about people it doesn’t like, assiduously fuelling the anti-woke culture wars and making money out of posting inappropriate images of underage celebrity daughters on its website, but you’re surely not suggesting that they might be inclined to exaggerate?
Or, as Captain Renault didn’t quite say: “I’m shocked - shocked - to find out that hyperbolising is going on in there”
Oh, do you mean the Daily Mail is like the Microsoft Start news feed?