The outage comes after a whistleblower said that the world's largest social network is prioritizing profits over users' safety.įacebook's stock was down more than 5% on Monday afternoon. Instagram's public relations team also tweeted about the outage, saying they were having "a bit of a hard time right now."įacebook said its engineers determined the problem originated with a networking issue that interrupted communications between its data centers. Messaging app WhatsApp, as well as Instagram and Facebook, reconnected to the global internet early on Tuesday, 5 October, morning after being down for nearly six hours. alone there were upwards of 123,000 problem reports for Facebook, 98,000 for Instagram, 34,000 for WhatsApp and 9,800 for Facebook Messenger. Octo12:21pm Updated Facebook offered sincere apologies Monday afternoon as a sweeping outage of its site and various other properties, including Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. The revelations have ignited a firestorm for Facebook in Washington. Facebook shares suffered their worst day in nearly a year, closing at 326.31 on Monday, down 4.87 per cent for the day amid a broad sell-off of tech stocks. Was data compromised after Facebook outage?įacebook said no user data was compromised across its platforms.įacebook previously said that they were aware of this issue and were working to get thing back to normal as quickly as possible. The following outage map shows the most recent locations worldwide where WhatsApp users have reported their issues and outages. WhatsApp Messenger: More than 2 billion people in over 180 countries use WhatsApp to stay in touch with friends and family, anytime and anywhere. On Sunday, a whistleblower revealed her identity and accused the company of putting profit over the safety of its users. About 5:40 p.m., some users were able to access the platforms, but not all functions were back. The social network and the Facebook-owned platforms stopped working about 11:30 a.m.
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