Facebook Goes Offline–Zuckerberg’s Net Worth Drops $7 Billion
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Big Tech is having a rough day.
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all went offline today.
Data on 1.5 billion Facebook users have been compromised and are being sold online on a popular hacking-related forum.
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp go offline
Online tools that track Facebook suggest the reason is a problem with its Domain Name System, or the servers that help create a website's IP addresses.https://t.co/JMiR7kZAkX — @NihalKrishan for @dcexaminer
— Daniel Chaitin (@danielchaitin7) October 4, 2021
Facebook and the network of social media companies it owns, including Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus VR, suddenly went offline Monday.
The reason for the shutdown was not clear, but online tools that track Facebook suggest that it’s a problem with its Domain Name System, or the servers that help create a website’s IP addresses.
JUST IN – Data of over 1.5 billion Facebook users is being sold on a popular hacking-related forum. Data contains users’ names, emails, phone numbers, locations, gender, and user ID.
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) October 4, 2021
Employees couldn’t enter the buildings to evaluate the Internet outage because their door access badges were not working.
JUST IN – Facebook employees reportedly can't enter buildings to evaluate the Internet outage because their door access badges weren’t working (NYT)
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) October 4, 2021
Mark Zuckerberg’s wealth has fallen $7 billion in just a few hours:
BREAKING: Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by nearly $7 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.’s flagship products offline. – Bloomberg
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) October 4, 2021
We will update this as we learn more….
