In a series of tweets, John Graham-Cumming, the chief technology officer of Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, said the problem was likely with Facebook’s servers, which were not letting people connect to its sites like Instagram and WhatsApp. The reason why this is thought to be the case is because the technology behind the apps was still different enough that one hack was not likely to affect all of them at once. However, in this instance several experts believed the outage may have been caused by a technical issue instead. Earlier this year, a leaked email from the firm suggested the social network expected more such incidents and was planning to frame it as an industry problem that was a normal occurrence. The speculation that dark forces may have been at work were not surprising, given that in 2019, details of more than 530 million people were leaked in a database online, largely consisting of mobile numbers, following a hack on Facebook. In the absence of any real explanation from Facebook, there were plenty of questions about the cause of the Facebook blackout and whether it was malicious or not. The social media giant suddenly went offline at around 4.45pm on Monday - causing a frantic operation to get the issue fixed as quick as possible.īut while that work went on behind the scenes, and witty memes were shared on Twitter, there was no explanation for the sudden outage - that also affected a number of UK phone networks too. Facebook - along with Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp - went down for more than seven hours, raising eyebrows among users as well as tech experts.

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