Disruption – Facebook services fail – economy

In the event of an unusually large outage, several Facebook group services went offline across the board on Monday. In addition to the actual Facebook platform, the WhatsApp chat service and the Instagram photo app were also inaccessible for many users, as fault reports on websites such as Downdetector showed. A Facebook spokesman apologized via Twitter and assured that the online network was working on the interference. The causes of the problems were initially not mentioned. For some web experts it looked like a problem with the DNS service. Among other things, this service ensures that website names typed in letters are translated into IP addresses so that they can be accessed.

The cloud service provider Cloudflare pointed out that users and software continued to try to control Facebook services. This ensures a massive increase in the utilization of other DNS services. Two unnamed IT security experts from Facebook told the New York Times that a cyber attack was unlikely to trigger the problems. Because the technology behind the individual apps of the group is too different to bring them all offline at the same time with a cyber attack. DNS malfunctions happen again and again.