Facebook and Instagram users were unable to access the service yesterday. So what happened?
Facebook and Instagram users were unable to access the service yesterday. London, UK - 02 06 2019: Apple iPhone 6s screen with social media icons applications Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram, Skype, Youtube, Snapchat etc.Yesterday, at about 11am EST, a hashtag started trending on Twitter: #Facebookdown. The social media site and its sister, Instagram, were suffering an outage.
And even if this issue is the result of internal failures, Dr Eiza warns that there is still a chance that malicious actors could have seized this downtime to get hold of data. “There’s every possibility that the data of Facebook and Instagram users could be at risk.” However, he also points out that Facebook should be well guarded against these types of attacks. “They will use such incredibly huge volumes of bandwidth it’s perhaps difficult to see how they couldn’t absorb even a monumental DDoS attack."
Christopher Moses, director intelligence and investigations at Blackstone Consultancy says the chance that it suffered a massive DDoS “is remote but not impossible”. Alternatively, he suggests it could have also been a reaction to something seen, such as someone attempting to breach the network – “where the decision was that it was better to take the network down to resolve the issue rather than have a potential breach”.
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