"We've been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. "To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry," Facebook said on Twitter. Instagram and WhatsApp are owned by Facebook. Many users got an "IP address could not be found" message when trying to load Facebook, while Instagram and WhatsApp users couldn't refresh their feeds or send any new messages on those apps. The company said there is "no evidence that user data was compromised as a result" of the outage and that it is still working to understand more about its cause.Īccording to the website DownDetector, users began reporting outage issues at around 11:20 a.m. The changes disrupted communication between the data centres, which halted services. The outages left people around the world unable to communicate on the platforms for more than six hoursįacebook released an update late Monday night stating that configuration changes on the backbone routers that co-ordinate network traffic between the company's data centres was the cause of the outage. Service began resuming for some users at around 6 p.m. Update (9 PM ET): Service appears to have been restored, with Facebook and Instagram both tweeting that the problems are resolved.Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back online after experiencing a worldwide outage on Monday that lasted throughout most of the day. According to Reuters, the company said it's working to resolve issues faced by some users on Instagram and WhatsApp.
Update (12:10PM ET): Facebook reportedly acknowledged the outage. This marks the third major outage this year.Įngadget has reached out to Facebook for comment. A month later, Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp experienced another outage.
In March, Facebook experienced a massive outage, supposedly due to a server configuration change. According to The Independent, some WhatsApp users are unable to send photos, videos and voice messages, though text is still going through, and #instagram down is trending on Twitter.Īt this point, it's unclear what might be causing the issue. Downdetector maps show the services are struggling around the globe, but the issues seem to be the worst on the East Coast and in Europe.
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are experiencing outages this morning.
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