Second hiccup in 24 hours
This is the second hiccup in 24 hours as Facebook, and its subsidiaries WhatsApp and Instagram, faced an outage for around eight hours yesterday.
People struggled to gain access to the three websites, but Facebook has not provided any information about what happened.Facebook is having another hiccup Facebook said on Twitter: ‘We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. ‘We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. We’re focused on working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, but can confirm that the issue is not related to a DDoS attack.’
In a DDoS attack, hackers use computer networks they control to send such a large number of requests for information from websites that servers that host them can no longer handle the traffic and the sites become unreachable.
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