The National lottery Website app down and global It outage 

National Lottery players have reported being unable to access its app and website after the group saying earlier it was investigating what was wrong.

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Downdetector received thousands of reports of outages beginning around 8.30pm on Friday night.

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It is unclear if the issues facing the lottery are connected to Friday's outage.

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In a post on X, the National Lottery said: "We are aware that some players are having issues accessing our website and app.

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"Apologies for the inconvenience, our team are currently investigating the issue to find out what has happened."

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A spokesperson later said the website and app were working again, however many people continued to report issues for hours after.

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