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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back up and running after going offline Monday morning for several hours.
“To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry,” Facebook tweeted shortly after its products were restored. “We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us.”
Monday’s crash marked the worst outage for Facebook since 2008 when a bug caused Facebook to be offline for nearly a day, according toCNBC, which also reported that there was an hour-long outage back in 2019 when Facebook blamed the issue on a server configuration change.
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DownDetector, a website that tracks real-time outage information, reported Facebook had thousands of reported outages from users since before noon ET.
So far, Facebook has yet to say that caused the hours-long outage.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, two Facebook employees toldThe New York Timeson Monday that “it was unlikely that a cyberattack caused the issues.”
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Facebook and Instagram quickly became trending topics with Twitter even trolling the tech giant, tweeting, “hello, literally everyone.”
source: people.com
