Intuit's Web sites hit by major outage

Intuit's core Web site and its QuickBooks and Quicken online sites have suffered a major outage, rendering them offline and unavailable since 7 p.m. PDT on Tuesday.

A representative from Intuit's corporate communications, Diane Carlini, confirmed to CNET News that the company is aware of the outage. She said the cause of the outage is unknown at this point but that the company's first priority is to restore the site and make sure customers have access to their data as soon as possible.

The outage has affected Intuit's main Web site, its QuickBooks Online site, and Quicken Online site. Attempts to view any of the sites bring up an error page or a page that says: "This web site is currently unavailable. We are working to restore it as quickly as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please check back shortly."

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