![]() Krebs saw it, too, and found domain name company GoDaddy also offering for sale. We just don’t why they were yanked?" Is for sale? Twitter reactsĪs the incident continued, cybersecurity analyst Anis Haboubi tweeted what appears to be a "For Sale" ad for the domain. Why that happened we don’t know, nor the cause of it? The routes were withdrawn or yanked. "It is 100% an internet routing issue," said Andrew Wertkin, chief strategy offficer at BlueCat Networks. "The routes are missing from the internet. "Visitors trying to reach a Facebook property, like, will not get an answer and so the page won’t load," Muzaffar said. When traffic is directed at Facebook's internet addresses, the addresses basically are not there because of the issue. "In our experience, these usually are mistakes, not attacks." "From what we understand of the actual issue – it is a globalized BGP configuration issue," Usman Muzaffar, Cloudflare's senior vice president, engineering, told USA TODAY. ![]() This occurred apparently because of an error in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), an internet traffic standard. FB alone is in control over its DNS records."įacebook's service became unavailable – and remained unavailable Monday afternoon – and unreachable on the internet, according to web infrastructure company Cloudflare. It could well have been the result of an internal, system wide change or update that went awry. "The DNS records that tell systems how to find or got withdrawn this morning from the global routing tables," Krebs tweeted. ![]() How did all these networks get affected at the same time? Computer security writer Brian Krebs tweeted a possible answer for some of the problems: Facebook and Instagram were apparently removed from the DNS (Domain Name System) servers that basically make up the white pages of the internet. The outage comes after a whistleblower said that the world's largest social network is prioritizing profits over users' safety.įormer Facebook product manager Frances Haugen said in an exclusive CBS’ “60 Minutes” interview Sunday that a 2018 change to the content flow in Facebook’s news feed contributed to more divisiveness and ill will in a network ostensibly created to bring people closer together.įacebook's stock fell by nearly 5% on Monday.įacebook whistleblower: Who is Frances Haugen? Everything you need to know Social media meltdown. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience." "This outage is still very much ongoing."īut the company took to Twitter and tweeted: "We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. "Most users are reporting troubles with the website and apps overall," Downdetector said in an update. Downdetector also said it received more than 123,000 reports of problems for Facebook, 97,000 for Instagram, 34,000 for WhatsApp and 9,600 for Facebook Messenger. Real-time online monitor Downdetector said it has seen more than 5.6 million reports about issues with Facebook and its services Instagram and WhatsApp since 11:15 a.m. ►Facebook consumer boycott: Would you take a Facebook or Instagram break? Why civil rights groups want you to log out ►Early Black Friday deals: Amazon rolls out 'Black Friday-worthy deals' earlier than ever, kicking off holiday shopping "We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible." On Instagram, messages including "Couldn't Refresh Feed" or “5xx Server Error” appeared.įacebook chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer issued an apology to users on Twitter: "*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now," he tweeted. Instagram and WhatsApp are not showing new or updated content. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can." Users going to Facebook's site saw an error page or an onscreen message that said, "Sorry, something went wrong. The outage affects nearly 7 billion users between the three platforms. ET Monday morning according to the site Down Detector. The social network and the Facebook-owned platforms all stopped working around 11:30 a.m. ![]() Watch Video: Blumenthal: Facebook knew sites harmful to teensįacebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have apparently all gone down in a major outage. ![]()
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