Facebook and Facebook-owned apps Instagram and WhatsApp were up and running again late Monday after being hit by an outage that affected users around the world. —@FacebookAbout 30 minutes after it began, Facebook acknowledged the outage in a tweet, saying that around the world some "people are having trouble accessing Facebook app. Facebook and Facebook-owned apps Instagram and WhatsApp were affected by the outage. Matthew Prince, CEO of the internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare, tweeted that "nothing we're seeing related to the Facebook services outage suggests it was an attack." Last week, it halted plans to develop a version of its photo and video sharing app Instagram designed specifically for children.

Source: CBC News October 04, 2021 16:47 UTC