Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook down on Yesterday among most part of the country
After a catastrophic outage affecting millions of users around the world, Facebook, its messaging platform WhatsApp, and its photo-sharing app Instagram were all restored after more than six hours. Late Monday, Facebook said it had been working to restore access to its services and was “glad to say they are now back up.
” The company apologised and thanked its customers for their patience, but it did not say what caused the outage, which started around 8:45 p.m. IST and was one of the longest in recent memory. The Facebook outage, according to Downdetector, was the greatest it had ever seen, with more than 10.6 million reports from around the world
Facebook’s stock dropped 4.9 percent on Monday, its worst daily decline since November, while ad measurement firm Standard Media Index estimated that the downtime cost the company $545,000 in US ad revenue per hour.
Internal Facebook apps, like the company’s own email system, were also hacked. Employees at the company’s Menlo Park, California, the location was reportedly unable to access offices and conference rooms that required a security badge, according to Bloomberg.
Facebook stated that “some people are having problems accessing (the) Facebook app” and that it was working to restore access, but it did not provide any other information about the cause of the outage or the number of people affected. It feels like a “snow day,” according to Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri, and Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s outgoing chief technical officer, blamed “networking problems.”
According to Reuters, many Facebook employees who did not want to be identified said they suspected the outage was caused by an internal routing error to an internet domain. They said that failures of internal communication tools and other resources that rely on the same domain to function exacerbated the problem.
Several security experts believe the outage on Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram was caused by an internal error, and that sabotage by an insider is theoretically possible. Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, tweeted, “Facebook simply locked its keys in its car.”
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