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Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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I first noticed Instagram then realized it was Facebook and their other properties such as What's App as well. Is very odd all of these major outages this week. By Cloudflare at least said it was an employee error, so assuming it's not subtle attacks by other countries unless companies like Cloudflare are required to legally provide an alternate story for national security.

According to Digital Attack [1] it seems the world is constantly on DDoS. [1] https://www.digitalattackmap.com

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Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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post #86

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I would say cash is used much less often in Canada than it used to be and most people just tap or swipe their Interac debit cards. Outages happen from time to time, usually during the mad Christmas shopping season, but life goes on.

Yeah. It happened a few times with Monzo in London. Nobody could pay for a day or something. Life went on.

It's really only gone down for short periods of time here- maybe a couple of hours at most, but it's usually just limited to one of the major banks or retailers (like all the Walmarts in town).

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

#93
post #85

Imagine if this meant not being able to send or receive currency.

Has there ever been a major bitcoin or ethereum, or stellar outage?

Facebook's more akin to an exchange for Libra, isn't it? There's 28 companies partnering up for the system.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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post #6

I find the outages of the last few days a curious coincidence : Slack, Google, Cloudflare, Azure, now FB. edit : added Slack after @kache_ mentioned it, added Azure after stevehubertron mentioned it.

Heard some rumors that China might have something to do to this, related to the Hong Kong protests, but they're just rumors.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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post #6

I find the outages of the last few days a curious coincidence : Slack, Google, Cloudflare, Azure, now FB. edit : added Slack after @kache_ mentioned it, added Azure after stevehubertron mentioned it.

I agree that the probability of these occurring so close together is very unlikely.

Separately, this is a huge blow for Instagram/Facebook since this is one of the busiest social media sharing weeks in the US. I bet a lot of their engineers are answering pagers on vacation.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

#96
post #49

Looks like Facebook image store is having issues. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp use the same image store, so all the services are affected.

However image metadata service seems to be up, this is what I see for most images on FB now.

https://imgur.com/a/uC2L354

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

#97
post #6

I find the outages of the last few days a curious coincidence : Slack, Google, Cloudflare, Azure, now FB. edit : added Slack after @kache_ mentioned it, added Azure after stevehubertron mentioned it.

Cloudflare's already stated that their outage yesterday was their own mistake: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage/

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

#98
post #74

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Anecdata is always funny because I hardly know anyone that uses debit. Credit all the way.

In Canada though? Because in Canada it is definitely rare to see cash now except in boomers. Even a lot of places don't accept cash like gyms for even purchases like drinks or towels.

If you frequent small (generally Asian) restaurants, it's quite common to see signs saying they only accept cash in Vancouver. Otherwise, if they take credit, they may attempt to incentivize paying with cash via discounts.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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All those outages are strange, I wasn't able to access my personal server for few hours today, I was not even capable to ping ip). When I was able to reconnect, everything seem to be ok. Maybe there is some routing/BGP issues/attack (again). Sadly, I didn't try to traceroute the serveur IP.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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post #94
post #6

I find the outages of the last few days a curious coincidence : Slack, Google, Cloudflare, Azure, now FB. edit : added Slack after @kache_ mentioned it, added Azure after stevehubertron mentioned it.

Heard some rumors that China might have something to do to this, related to the Hong Kong protests, but they're just rumors.

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