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WhatsApp Down: What Caused The WhatsApp Outage? by Abigali(f) : 6:25 am |
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger suffered a massive outage on Monday, potentially affecting tens of millions of users around the world.The Facebook-owned platforms all reportedly crashed early on Monday evening, blocking users from accessing their services. Facebook’s internal systems used by employees also reportedly went down. WhatsApp users on both iPhone and Android could not make or receive phone or video calls or send text messages. The company acknowledged the outage after nearly an hour of users being unable to access their apps, tweeting that it was “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”. Widespread outagesDowndetector.com showed outages in densely populated areas like London, Paris, and Paris. The site, which provides real-time status reports for a range of online platforms and services, 73,804 problems with WhatsApp had been recorded in the UK alone in a spike at 5:53 pm CET. In the US, 36,686 reports were recorded. Many Facebook users were shown messages including “This site is inaccessible” and “Impossible to find the server address”. According to Downdector, 57,690 reports of issues were recorded around the same time in the UK, of which the vast majority (around 63 percent) were related to access to the website and a further 25 percent to the app. In the US, 127,726 reports were recorded. People who use their Facebook credentials to access third-party apps, including Pokemon Go and Match Masters, were also hit by the company being offline. The outage appeared to have been going on for most of Monday evening. The cause has not yet been determined. “We are aware that some people are having trouble accessing our applications and products. We are working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for the inconvenience,” Andy Stone, a spokesman for the Facebook group, tweeted. The company did not immediately respond to a request from AFP about the outage. Localized outages are not uncommon but global outages are generally considered rare. The last major internet outage, which crippled many of the world’s leading websites, including Euronews and other media outlets, was in June and lasted an hour. Content delivery company Fastly blamed it on an undiscovered software bug. What is the likely cause?Doug Madory, director of internet analysis for Kentik Inc, told the Associated Press that he believes the outage was caused by Facebook withdrawing “authoritative DNS routes” that let the rest of the Internet communicate with its properties. Such routes are part of the Internet’s Domain Name System, a central component of the internet that directs its traffic. Without Facebook broadcasting its routes on the public Internet, apps and web addresses simply could not locate it. Jake Williams, chief technical officer of the cybersecurity firm BreachQuest, said that while foul play cannot be completely ruled out, chances were good that the outage is “an operational issue” caused by human error. Facebook in crisisFacebook, which has nearly 3 billion monthly users worldwide, is going through one of its worst reputation crises in a fortnight due to revelations by a whistleblower. Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product engineer, leaked numerous internal documents in the past week, including to the Wall Street Journal. She further accused the company of “(choosing) profit over the safety” of its users, in an interview broadcast by CBS on Sunday. On Wall Street, Facebook’s share price, already down at the beginning of the session, accelerated its losses on Monday and fell by nearly 6 percent, shedding more than $50 billion (€43 billion) in value. When your WhatsApp is not working?Restart your phone, by turning it off and back on. Update WhatsApp to the latest version available on the Google Play Store. Source: euronews.com
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