We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible," a Facebook statement said on Twitter. A short time later, Facebook indicated the outage was not related to an attack aimed at overwhelming the network. Last November, a Facebook outage was attributed to a server problem, and a September disruption was said to be the result of "networking issues." Facebook has shared limited amounts of user data with smartphone makers and other outside partners to enable its services to work well on devices or with applications. The focus of the grand jury probe was not clear, nor was when it started, according to the Times, which cited unnamed sources.

Source: Standard Digital March 14, 2019 05:03 UTC