Since around 5:55 p.m. there has been a problem with the photo service Instagram and Facebook, which belong to Facebook. WhatsApp shouldn't work either! Although the app can be opened, many users are unable to post, open or send images.
If you look at the overview page at https://alletreibungen.at , you can also see that Snapchat and YouTube are affected, as are Facebook Messenger , Tik-Tok and also Telegram as well as Netflix etc.
UPDATE 11:44 p.m
Facebook can occasionally be accessed again, even if only very slowly. And at the moment you can only see the basic structure once, but no contributions yet!
You can also identify it using the “Ping” service: https://check-host.net/check-ping?host=facebook.com
UPDATE 11:40 p.m
Something is likely to happen, because on the Facebook website you can see one of the typical messages from Facebook again.
“Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can. Go Back”
as well as tweets Cloudflare's head of technology Graham-Cumming
“I'm seeing signs of increased BGP activity from Facebook. Could be a signal that they are close to coming back online. Fingers crossed"
Seeing signs of increased BGP activity from Facebook. Might be a signal that they are getting close to coming back online. Fingers crossed. #hugops pic.twitter.com/l5G4Dk8I68
— John Graham-Cumming (@jgrahamc) October 4, 2021
UPDATE 10:50 PM
Reuters just reported: “According to security experts, the disruption could be the result of an internal error, but sabotage by an insider is also theoretically possible.” ( Source )
UPDATE 10:17 p.m
Facebook technical director Mike Schroepfer just tweeted that Facebook sincerely apologizes to anyone currently affected by outages of Facebook-based services.
“We are experiencing network issues and teams are working as quickly as possible to troubleshoot and restore as quickly as possible.”
*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible
— Mike Schroepfer (@schrep) October 4, 2021
UPDATE 9:28 p.m
The New York Times reported that two Facebook IT security experts, who were not named, said a possible hacker attack was unlikely to be the cause. The app systems are still too different for that.
According to media reports, internal Facebook systems are also likely to be affected. NBC News journalist Kevin Collier wrote on Twitter that Facebook employees couldn't even enter conference rooms.
Don't yet know exactly what's behind the DNS issue that's knocked Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp offline, but it's really bad. Pretty much everything that runs through those three companies are inaccessible. Employees can't even enter conference rooms because they're IoT!
— Kevin Collier (@kevincollier) October 4, 2021
In addition, Facebook's share price temporarily fell by around 6 percent on Monday, October 4th, 2021. The price has fallen by around 15 percent since mid-September. This means the company's value has fallen by more than $100 billion. ( Source )
UPDATE 8:45 p.m
After the mega outage on Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, the website facebook.com is suddenly for sale.
🚨 | NEW: Facebook's domain has been mistakenly listed for sale pic.twitter.com/NOKSOMLj1H
— News For All (@NewsForAllUK) October 4, 2021
“Facebook’s domain was mistakenly listed for sale.”
UPDATE 7:12 p.m
According to Cloudfare manager Dane Knecht, the failure is due to a DNS error. It looks like “their BGP routes have been withdrawn from the Internet” .
And John Graham-Cumming, Cloudflare's head of technology, also commented on this. According to him, there were irregularities in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). This enables data exchange between individual routers and is essential for the functioning of the Internet.
About five minutes before Facebook's DNS stopped working we saw a large number of BGP changes (mostly route withdrawals) for Facebook's ASN. pic.twitter.com/dMTevg6hqj
— John Graham-Cumming (@jgrahamc) October 4, 2021
We will inform you as soon as we can find out more about the background that led to these problems.
WhatsApp itself tweets:
“We are aware that some people are currently having issues with WhatsApp. We are working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience!"
We're aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We're working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible.
Thanks for your patience!
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) October 4, 2021
Facebook also reports:
“We are aware that some users are experiencing issues accessing our apps and products. We are working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience.”
We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
— Facebook (@Facebook) October 4, 2021
Total failure one day after whistleblower revelation?
The first voices are now being raised as to whether the revelation of the whistleblower might have something to do with it! The incident occurred one day after former Facebook employee Haugen identified herself as a whistleblower following revelations about the harmful effects of Facebook platforms on young people. We reported about it here.
However, we don't think so, as the outages also affect other platforms that do not belong to Facebook.
The only question is, what do the other failures have to do with Facebook's mega-failure?
The disruption is likely to be WORLDWIDE. What the reason for this is is not yet clear.
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