Ok who pulled the wire out? (Facebook, WhatsApp go down)
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Surprising that it's taking so long to come back, so I guess their IT department can expect to be eviscerated in the near future, unless the issue turns out to be entirely outside their control.
Their message about the situation - on Twitter, ho-ho! - is rather unsatisfactory: "We are aware some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We are working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologise for any inconvenience."
"some" people? "having trouble"? Really, Facebook?
If it's a DNS problem, does that mean it's still accessible by using their IP address?
Their message about the situation - on Twitter, ho-ho! - is rather unsatisfactory: "We are aware some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We are working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologise for any inconvenience."
"some" people? "having trouble"? Really, Facebook?
If it's a DNS problem, does that mean it's still accessible by using their IP address?
Why do I get the feeling that it's a hack attack? A really big one.
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Has Facebook Been Hacked? BGP Records Vanish As Employees Plunged In Logistical Nightmare
Either of two things has happened at Facebook. It has either been the target of a massive hack, or someone somewhere has screwed up in a major fashion. We are getting reports that the depth of the outage has various moving parts and is not simply a basic DNS error. This is something that will...
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Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram back after outage
Facebook says the outage, which lasted nearly six hours, was caused by a faulty configuration change.
www.bbc.co.uk
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DNS resolution returns no records for Facebook.comWhy do I get the feeling that it's a hack attack? A really big one.
Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram back after outage
Facebook says the outage, which lasted nearly six hours, was caused by a faulty configuration change.www.bbc.co.uk
That's more likely to be the mother of all SysAdmin FUBARs than a malicious attack.
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Damnit. Knew I should have got myself on a VPN by now...
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An interesting report on the situation here:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
They saw you coming.
Here we go again lol.
Facebook apologises as services including Instagram hit again
The brief outage comes just days after Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp went down for hours globally.
www.bbc.co.uk
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