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If you can log in, you can't do anything as you keep getting "error" messages.
Looks like they are under a hacker attack right now.
helpisontheway
(5,007 posts)reply nothing comes up.
underpants
(182,776 posts)berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)JohnQFunk
(409 posts)Looks like they hosed their DNS routing!
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/4/22709654/instagram-facebook-outage-whatsapp-oculus
Facebook is back online after a six-hour outage due to DNS routing problems. The outage took down Instagram, Whatsapp, Messenger, and Oculus VR as well. For some, those services are back online now; however, after a DNS issue like this, it could take hours for everything to work properly on every network.
The outage started just before noon ET on Monday. It was the most significant outage for Facebook since a 2019 incident took its site offline for more than 24 hours.
On Twitter, Facebook communications exec Andy Stone said, Were aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. Were working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
Inside Facebook, the outage broke internal systems as well, leaving employees unable to get into offices and communicate easily with each other. Some told The Verge they were using work-provided Outlook email accounts, allowing Facebook workers to email each other but unable to send or receive emails from external addresses.
AZSkiffyGeek
(11,008 posts)But it was down a good 7-8 hours. Apparently someone fucked up their DNS, and also took down all their internal tools as well - not an outside hack though, internal.
LonePirate
(13,417 posts)See this link for an explainer:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/what-happened-to-facebook-instagram-whatsapp/
dweller
(23,628 posts)My FACE
In a BOOK
✌🏻
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)System. See this DU link:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215922139