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Instagram, Whatsapp and Facebook down since yesterday which affected billions of users around the world.

Many users around the world got frustrated, since they are not able to login Facebook accounts as well as Instagram account and whatsApp apps.

Officials from Facebook claimed that the Facebook down due to the internal glitch and it is also affected another Facebook owned platforms Instagram and WhatsApp.

Facebook users are reporting this issues with sending messages on Messenger, posting to the feed on all Facebook products around the globe.

According to a map by Down Detector. The outage affected users in the US, Europe, South America, Australia and Asia.

Facebook says via Twitter ” 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

Also Facebook clearly conformed that Facebook down not because of the DDOS attack and they technical Team Continuously working on it to sort out this major issue.

GBHackers Team have tested the Facebook in multiple accounts across India, US and some of the Asian countries, the desktop version of the Facebook not allowed users to log in and also the messenger couldn’t load at all on desktop.

If you already have the Facebook account logged in with your browser, then you can access the service, but it is not possible to make any posts at moment.

Facebook product director Rob Leathern twitted that ” We’re also aware that people are experiencing issues with access to our ads interfaces, we’ll share an update as soon as possible.”

In this Facebook down incident makes frustrate the billions of users and one of the Facebook tweets that “In an era of 24 x 7 availability this is unprecendented. “

Instagram Down

Instagram also down for many countries and some users posts aren’t loading, new content uploading also not working. Instagram Stories are down.

Also Ad section also down that cause users not allowed to buy an ads and reflecting the internal error.

Instagram responded in Twitter said ” We’re aware of an issue impacting people’s access to Instagram right now. We know this is frustrating, and our team is hard at work to resolve this ASAP. “

WhatsApp & Oculus Down

Apart from Instagram & Facebook Down incidents, another Facebook owned companies Whatsapp and Oculus also affected.

Many of the Whatsapp users reported that they were not able to send the voice message, disconnecting video calls and the massages are failed to deliver.

Facebook Owned virtual reality company Oculus also down and the user said “Nobody can log in to any multiplayer games purchased through the Oculus store”

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Also Read:

Facebook Released New Location Privacy Control for Android Users to Stop Collecting Location Data

Beware!! New Android Malware That Can Read Your WhatsApp Messages & Take Screen Shots

Instagram Hack – How Hacking Group Steals Popular Instagram Profiles

Balaji
Balaji
BALAJI is an Ex-Security Researcher (Threat Research Labs) at Comodo Cybersecurity. Editor-in-Chief & Co-Founder - Cyber Security News & GBHackers On Security.

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