On social media for now, which is mostly Twitter given that the whole of Facebook and company is down users are saying that Facebook servers have been hacked, that hackers have brought down WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, that hackers have hit Facebook so hard that not even its DNS records are in existence and that its whole existence has been erased from the Internet. In particular, there are two terms coming up again and again: DNS and BGP.Īlso read: WhatsApp down: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger down in global outage, company working on a fix Most importantly, several cyber experts have pointed to a possible DNS issue that may have caused the entire ecosystem of Facebook apps to crash on Monday.

While we still wait for what Facebook says about this massive outage which is about to hit the two-hour mark, there are speculations on the Internet about a cyber attack. Yes, and primarily all Facebook properties, including Instagram, Messenger, Oculus, and Facebook social media platforms, have been down for over two hours when writing this article.

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