The website also showed that at least 87,000 people, till the time of writing this reported that they could not access Facebook. Netizens react with hilarious memes as as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp face To be fair, we must note that most commonly such outages are caused by non-malicious actions – suspect it to be the case here too,' Wüest said in an email statement. Depending on what service is attacked – for example, if it’s a central authentication server shared between multiple brands, like in this case, then such a single outage can lead to multiple brands going offline.

“While there’s no confirmation on what caused the incident from Facebook Inc, it’s possible that the issue lies with the BGP or DNS protocol – which happen to be popular targets among cyber criminals…. The outage has impacted potentially tens of millions of users.Ĭandid Wüest, Acronis's VP of Cyber Protection Research, said the outage may have happened due to issues with the BGP or DNS protocol.

News agencies Reuters and AFP have confirmed that the outage is faced by users worldwide. The WhatsApp messaging app is unable to send or receive messages while Instagram and Facebook's messaging platforms are also facing an outage. We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can.” The Facebook website shows an error message “Sorry, something went wrong. Instagram is also showing the same - 5xx Server Error message - message. The is also displaying this error message - 5xx Server Error.

More than 20,000 people have reported that the WhatsApp is not working for them. , a website that tracks issues related to traffic on major websites, also saw a spike in number of reports which confirmed that a large number of people are unable to access WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram.

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