#Facebook issues Offline#

It's often called the 'phonebook of the internet. The DNS translates website names into IP addresses that can be read by a computer. Around 1 pm ET, Cisco's internet analysis division ThousandEyes said on Twitter that its tests indicated the outage was due to an ongoing DNS failure. Janardhan said the company has 'no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime.'Įarlier, multiple security experts quickly pointed to a Domain Name System (DNS) problem as a possible culprit. This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt,' Janardhan said. 'Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. and WhatsApp all experienced significant issues for around six hours was a major event for many. Later Monday, Santosh Janardhan, Facebook's VP of infrastructure, released a statement saying the company was 'sorry for the inconvenience caused by today's outage across our platforms.' Facebook tweeted just after 6:30 pm ET that its apps and services were beginning to work again. 'We've been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now.

#Facebook issues Offline#

'To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry,' it said. Monday's crash marks the worst outage for Facebook since 2008 when a bug caused Facebook to be offline for nearly a day, according to CNBC, which also reported that there was an hour-long outage. The fact that Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all experienced significant issues for around six hours was a major event for many users.

In her prepared testimony obtained by CNN on Monday ahead of her appearance before the subcommittee, Haugen said, 'I came forward because I recognized a frightening truth: almost no one outside of Facebook knows what happens inside Facebook.' Haugen is set to testify before the Senate subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security on Tuesday. The interview followed weeks of reporting about and criticism of Facebook after Haugen released thousands of pages of internal documents to regulators and the Wall Street Journal. Facebook has pushed back on those claims. On Sunday, '60 Minutes' aired a segment in which Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen claimed the company is aware of how its platforms are used to spread hate, violence and misinformation, and that Facebook has tried to hide that evidence. Richard Blumenthal pressed Facebook global head of safety Antigone Davis on Facebook-owned Instagram and the platform's potential negative impact on children, particularly young girls. The outage came amid mounting difficulties for the company.Īt a Senate hearing on Sept. Facebook's own site would not load at all Instagram and WhatsApp were accessible, but could not load new content or send messages. Outage tracking site Down Detector logged tens of thousands of reports for each of the services. PHILADELPHIA - Around six hours after Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram went down, service started coming back online, though coverage was still spotty.įacebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all suffered outages midday Monday, according to public statements from the three Facebook services. Here’s DownDetector’s Instagram page, showing only a moderate spike and nothing comparable to Facebook.Around six hours after Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram went down, service started coming back online. Central, nearly 30 minutes after the spike in errors was first reported.ĭownDetector Is Not Reporting Similar Spikes on Instagram or WhatsAppĭownDetector has not reported similar spikes on Instagram or WhatsApp as of the time of this story’s publication. However, that page is showing “No known issues” as of 4:34 p.m. People reported the issue across the country, including in New York City and in Texas.įacebook’s Developers Platform Status can sometimes help point to the source of issues with Facebook and Instagram. Looks like it’s another huge outage/issue.” On DownDetector, one person did say they were having issues with the app too, writing: “Newsfeed broken on the app and on the web. ET on Monday, users around the world reported issues accessing Facebook apps like Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook itself on the outage-tracking website Downdetector.

This may be because of a technical error that we’re working to get fixed. Users may see a “Something Went Wrong” error that reads: “Something went wrong. In 2013, a whitehat hacker tried to report a. Heavy noted the error showed on several different browsers. Here are some of the most standout scandals involving Facebook, now known as Meta, in the last decade. One of the errors appears when loading Facebook’s home page on a browser. Central, about 80% of the reported errors were from the website, increasing the percentage even more from when the initial spike of errors was observed.