News Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp recovering after worst outage in their history

[Becky]

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Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp recovering after worst outage in their history - Facebook has confirmed that there was no DDoS attack, but other details are thin

Facebook and Instagram are recovering from a mysterious outage yesterday which left users unable to access their services. Users also encountered problems with messaging app WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, as well as Facebook's first messaging app, Messenger.

Given that the problems only affected sites and apps owned by the Facebook group, there was wide speculation that the outage was caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS). A DDoS attack is where a website is hit...

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[muckshifter]

Ha! Lord of the Rings Online was 'down' for 4 days.

Is working now.