Shares of Facebook, which has nearly 2 billion daily active users, fell 5.5% in afternoon trading on Monday, inching towards its worst day in nearly a year. Senators put the social media giant's Antigone Davis through the wringer last week over damning reports that Facebook's own research warned of potential harm. The world's largest social media platform has been embroiled in a firestorm brought about by Haugen, with US lawmakers and The Wall Street Journal raising sharp criticism of the network. The outage comes a day after a whistleblower went on US television to reveal her identity after she leaked a trove of documents to authorities alleging the company knew its products were fueling hate and harming children's mental health.įrances Haugen, a 37-year-old data scientist from Iowa, has worked for companies including Google and Pinterest - but said in an interview with CBS news show "60 Minutes" that Facebook was "substantially worse" than anything she had seen before. A massive denial-of-service attack that could overwhelm one of the world's most popular sites would require either coordination among powerful criminal groups or a very innovative technique. An outage is determined when the number of reports are higher than the baseline, represented by the red line. Security experts tracking the situation said the outage could have been triggered by a configuration error, which could be the result of an internal mistake, though sabotage by an insider would be theoretically possible.Īn outside hack is less likely. The following chart shows the number of reports that we have received about WhatsApp by time of day over the past 24 hours.
It is normal for websites and apps to suffer outages, though one on a global scale is rare.
WHATSAPP OUTAGE TRACKER SERIES
Downdetector - which only tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, showed there were more than 50,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and Instagram.As per The Verge, users could load games they already had installed and the browser worked, but social features or installing new games did not. The problem also appears to be affecting Facebook's virtual reality arm, Oculus.Though the error message on the webpage of Facebook Inc suggested a problem with Domain Name System (DNS). The company did not specify the reason for the global outage.We are working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologise for any inconvenience," a Facebook spokesperson said.
"We are aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products.
0 kommentar(er)
