![]() The exact cause of the outage has not been confirmed by Facebook, but one expert said the problem may have been caused by an internal error made by staff that effectively erased the site from the internet. NetBlocks, which tracks internet outages and their impact, estimate the outage cost the global economy $160m (£117 million), and sent the Facebook share price down by more than five per cent - meaning that the firm's founder Mark Zuckerberg lost around $7billion of his fortune in a matter of hours. ![]() We're working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible.Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger went down for users around the world for more than five hours on Monday in a catastrophic outage that is understood to have been caused by a server update gone wrong.Īccording to DownDetector, the issues started at around 16:44 BST (11:44 ET), with nearly 80,000 reports for WhatsApp and more than 50,000 for Facebook. In a similarly worded statement, WhatsApp has taken to Twitter to acknowledge the outage, "We're aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. In a tweet, MalwareTech says, "Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp are all down due to a BGP configuration error, which means it's only a matter of time before someone tweets a pew pew map screenshot and claims it's a global cyber attack." Marcus Hutchins, a Cybersecurity expert famous on Twitter with the handle MalwareTech, has ruled out global cyber attack possibility. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience." Update: A Facebook spokesperson has emailed India Today Tech a statement about the outage, "We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. ![]() LATEST UPDATE: Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram appear to partly reconnect after nearly six-hour outageĭowndetector confirms that there are issues on WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook platforms. ![]()
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