Thank you for bearing with us.- 30 minutes after it began, Facebook acknowledged the outage in a tweet, saying that around the world some "people are having trouble accessing Facebook app. We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. We should also note that other Facebook properties like are also still down.To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry. even our VPNs are reporting they can't find the server." "So everybody's cut off from work right now, too. "It also took down Workplace, which is what we use for all of internal communications," said the source. What's even more interesting is that it seems to be a DNS (Domain Name System) server/host level attack that has taken out all of Facebook internet properties, apps and services, all of which can't actually resolve when their names are typed in a browser or apps are loaded.įacebook, however, has provided this official response so far:Īn anonymous employee source at Facebook tells us that the outage is not just affecting end users trying to access its properties and apps, it's hampering internal work systems at the company too. Rumors allege that the outages are the result of a DDoS attack in response to Haugen’s explosive claims, which are backed by a lengthy paper trail. Haugen resigned after becoming disillusioned with the company’s policies which she felt did more to harm its users than promote a healthy social networking environment.Īlthough Facebook hasn’t commented on the outages yet, it’s rather curious timing that this outage is coming so soon after the 60 Minutes piece. A quick trip to Downdetector shows that the first reports starting coming in at around 11:20 am ET.Įarlier this morning, we reported on a damning 60 Minutes interview with Frances Haugen, who served as a data scientist and former product manager for Facebook. The same is true for web and mobile versions of Instagram. In addition, the mobile app is non-functional. It’s widely reported worldwide that Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram are down at the moment.īesides the avalanche of panicking users reporting their problems on Twitter, we can confirm that the Facebook website is entirely inaccessible, and the DNS is not resolving.
If you’re a frequent user of Facebook services, you’re probably having some withdrawal pains now.
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