Company says the global-wide glitch was not due to hacking
Facebook was grappling with a major global-wide outage, with scores of its 2-billion users unable to access the social networking platform. Picture: REUTERS/DADO RUVICFacebook grappled with challenges on two fronts on Wednesday: an hours-long outage and intensified scrutiny from investigators reportedly probing data deals struck by the world’s largest social network.
A downdetector.com map late on Wednesday showed Facebook service troubles persisting in parts of Australia, Asia, Europe, South America and North America.“This is very bad. Seriously this is not something funny or worth the amusement to even troll about.”The outage, of unknown origin, also affected Facebook-owned Instagram, as well as Messenger.‘Not a DDoS attack’
A short time later, Facebook indicated the outage was not related to an attack aimed at overwhelming the network. A grand jury in New York has subpoenaed information from at least two major smartphone makers about such arrangements with Facebook, according to the Times. “It has already been reported that there are ongoing federal investigations, including by the department of justice,” a Facebook spokesperson said in response to an AFP inquiry.
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