Tan and her security analyst colleagues believed, however, that the broader outage was accidental, and that the outage and domain disconnection of the website were two separate issues. Doug Madory, director of internet analysis for Kentik Inc., said it appeared that the Domain Name System routes (an integral element of how traffic on the internet is directed) that Facebook makes available to the networking world have been withdrawn.

“Imagine if Facebook no longer is able to use, then this hacker could resell it to them for a much higher price.”īeyond the applications, people trying to type in their browsers received a “This site can’t be reached” error message during Monday’s problems. “It’s possible that someone has infiltrated their system and has caused all these outages so that they can perform data exfiltration and make money out of it,” said Tan. Rossilyne Tan, a security analyst at iON United, said there were two possible scenarios for the outage.

We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible.” All the above apps plus Facebook Messenger and Facebook’s VR platform Oculus had been reportedly widely down on Monday. Facebook chief technical officer Mike Schroepfer tweeted out “*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now.

Monday evening a company spokesman confirmed to the New York Times the services were slowly being restored, but it would take some time for them before they were stable.Ī spokesperson for Facebook had resorted to relaying the news of the service disruption on Twitter, of all places. Some users found Facebook and Instagram returning to service at around 6 p.m. These platforms suffered an outage and some users experienced issues accessing these applications. People around the world spent much of Monday trying to figure out what’s going on with their Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp applications.

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