Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Reported Down by Users Worldwide

Branding in Asia ^ | 10/4/2021 | Staff

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Messaging app WhatsApp, as well as social media platforms Instagram and Facebook have crashed for users worldwide. The outage started around 11:44 EDT in the United States and continues at this writing.

[Salvation]

Good things happening?

[chrisser]

I would have thought a company like Facebook would have had monitors in place to detect this sort of tweaking and pre-existing relationships with the big DNS hosts to get it fixed quickly if it happened.

But now that this has gone on for several hours, I’m starting to wonder how it is that it hasn’t been fixed yet unless it was intentional by Facebook (for some reason I don’t comprehend). If it was some sort of hack, it really should have been fixed by now at least on the top level servers. Just thinking about the ad revenue they’re losing is pretty mind-blowing - it would certainly justify any resources necessary to get this fixed.

[Col Frank Slade]

3 hours of FACEBOOK FUBAR ..

Hahahaha

[upchuck]

This is the Farcebook Is Evil ping list.

h/t pookie18's cartoons

Facebook is a perfect example of socialism:
You get it for free but the quality sucks.
You have no say in how it works.
The guy who runs it gets rich.
There's no real competition.
You have no privacy.
And if you say one thing they don't like
they'll shut you up.

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[mewzilla]

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JUST IN - Data of over 1.5 billion Facebook users is being sold on a popular hacking-related forum. Data contains users’ names, emails, phone numbers, locations, gender, and user ID.
2:16 PM · Oct 4, 2021·Twitter Web App

[mewzilla]

From patriots.win

FACEBOOK AND ITS SERVICES STILL DOWN... KEEP THE FAITH PEDES

BREAKING: Data of over 1.5 billion Facebook users is being sold on a popular hacking-related forum. Data contains users’ names, emails, phone numbers, locations, gender, and user ID.

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JUST IN - Facebook employees reportedly can’t enter buildings to evaluate the Internet outage because their door access badges weren’t working (NYT)
2:58 PM · Oct 4, 2021

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

NO, GAB is UP! I was just there.

[mewzilla]

Could this really be Project Veritas related...

[gitmo]

ZDNET What took Facebook Down?

He continued, "There are people now trying to gain access to the peering routers to implement fixes, but the people with physical access is separate from the people with knowledge of how to actually authenticate to the systems and people who know what to actually do, so there is now a logistical challenge with getting all that knowledge unified. Part of this is also due to lower staffing in data centers due to pandemic measures."

[Dr. Scarpetta]

They can’t get in the door? Hope FB’s out for a while, even though I use it.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I hope.

[John W]

Seeing some issues with Twitter last few minutes, maybe it will join the club.

[Cap Huff]

Ping

[dware]

Facebook is where the fight is.

[Lurkinanloomin]

You are providing the money for Zuckerberg to rig elections.

[dware]

You are providing the money for Zuckerberg to rig elections.

And, by continuing use of the FRN "greenbacks", you are providing the consent necessary for the feds to continue screwing us over. Pretty sure you likely submit to background checks when you purchase firearms as well, which means you consent to the destruction of the 2A.

The fight is not on GAB or Parler or FreeRepublic. The fight is where the enemy is.

[ducttape45]

It couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of folks. HAHAHA!!!!!!!!

[hiredhand]

It all came back up an hour ago... maybe more. It's a strange story though. From what I read, it was major "ownage" by somebody who very probably was on the inside to start with. I read that not only did somebody delete their DNS data, but there was also a customer data breach of 1.5 billion accounts, AND that somebody hacked their entry control systems on their buildings so that tech support personnel couldn't get in to troubleshoot.

Some of that doesn't add up. In order for what I just wrote to be absolutely TRUE, FaceBook network services personnel would have had to NOT have access to internal networks via VPN, which is difficult to believe in this day of "virtual office" and social distancing. So IF they needed to be ON SITE to fix this problem, then it was indeed a monumental problem to start with... then to NOT be able to get inside the buildings because of entry control system problems? It all adds up to a much, MUCH larger problem, and NOT the "limited" thing they're making it out to be.

I'd like to have been a fly on the wall within their network services team, but suffice to say, this wasn't NOT a "simple DNS hack". Somebody p0wn3d them badly, and for most of the day as well.