Facebook’s website and apps are partially down and the social media giant
says it is working to fix the issue.
”We’re aware that some
people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps.
We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible,” the social media giant
said in a Twitter post on Wednesday night.
It has not cleared
what the issue is but later said it “can confirm that the issue is not related
to a DDoS attack”.
A distributed
denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is one of the most powerful weapons on the
internet, according to an article uploaded on the website of anti-virus and
anti-malware software package Norton.
“When you hear about a
website being ‘brought down by hackers,’ it generally means it has become a
victim of a DDoS attack. In short, this means that hackers have attempted to
make a website or computer unavailable by flooding or crashing the website with
too much traffic,” the article reads.
We’re aware that some
people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps.
We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
Many of the users
in Bangladesh told that they were unable to access Facebook’s website and
its apps like Messenger and Instagram.
Some said they could log in but
could not post anything on Facebook and Instagram or send messages through
Messenger.
Some others said their pages were
not refreshing.
The number of problems reported at
Facebook skyrocketed from a few to over 10,000 globally sometime after 10pm,
according to Downdetector, a platform that tracks technology fails.
As many as 34 percent Facebook users
across the globe were facing log-in problems, 33 percent on their newsfeeds and
32 percent a total blackout, according to Downdetector data.
After 3am on Thursday, some services
like posting links resumed as the number of issues reported to Downdetector
came down to zero, but Facebook was yet to make any announcement on full
resumption of its services.
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