San Francisco: Facebook and Instagram users lost access to the socialnetwork’s applications in parts of the world Wednesday as a result of anoutage of undetermined origin.
The California giant which has more than two billion users acknowledged theoutage after users noted on Twitter they could not access Facebook or hadlimited functionality.
“We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing theFacebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon aspossible,” a Facebook statement said on Twitter.
A short time later, Facebook indicated the outage was not related to anattack aimed at overwhelming the network.
“We’re focused on working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, but canconfirm that the issue is not related to a DDoS attack,” Facebook said,referring to what is known as a distributed denial of service cyber strike.
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According to the website downdetector.com, outages were heaviest in NorthAmerica and Europe, but some users appeared to be affected in other regions.
Last November, a Facebook outage was attributed to a server problem and aSeptember 2018 outage was said to be the result of “networking issues.” -APP/AFP
