The outage might be affecting a larger number of users. “We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience,' Facebook tweeted about 30 minutes after the first reports of the outage.įacebook's response was made much more difficult because employees lost access to some of their own tools in the shutdown, people tracking the matter said.ĭowndetector - which only tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform - showed there were more than 50,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and Instagram.

A massive denial-of-service attack that could overwhelm one of the world's most popular sites, on the other hand, would require either coordination among powerful criminal groups or a very innovative technique.įacebook acknowledged users were having trouble accessing its apps but did not provide any specifics about the nature of the problem or how many were affected by the outage. That could be the result of an internal mistake, though sabotage by an insider would be theoretically possible.Īn outside hack was viewed as less likely. Security experts tracking the situation said the outage likely was triggered by a configuration error that left directions to Facebook servers unavailable. A similar outage at cloud company Akamai Technologies Inc took down multiple websites in July.

We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible.ĭNS allows web addresses to take users to their destinations. We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment.

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