Down Detector, a service that keeps track of website performance, recorded a major spike in reports of an interruption to Facebook services this morning. Two Facebook-owned services, Instagram and Whatsapp, were also down. The outages appeared to be affecting both services on a global scale. The latest outage had a much wider impact, affecting Facebook, Instagram, ad services and a number of other properties within the Facebook group. On April 4, data from more than 500 million Facebook accounts was found available on a website for hackers.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 08, 2021 22:18 UTC