AEDT Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are finally back up after a six-hour outage, though whether this is a good or bad thing depends on your point of view. We also have no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime." The post offered few concrete details about the incident, but apologized "to all those affected". AEDT Facebook published a brief post about the outage, saying "We want to make clear at this time we believe the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change. “They’re more susceptible to social engineering because they’re so desperate to communicate.” Tobac said during previous outages, some people have received emails promising to restore their social media account by clicking on a malicious link that can expose their personal data.UPDATE: Oct.
“They don’t know how to contact the people in their lives without it,” she said.
So many people are reliant on Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram as a primary mode of communication that losing access for so long can make them vulnerable to criminals taking advantage of the outage, said Rachel Tobac, a hacker and CEO of SocialProof Security. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth fell by more than $US6.1 billion ($8.4 billion) in a few hours, knocking him below Bill Gates on the list of the world’s richest people after the outages, and also after a whistleblower came forward with internal documents that exposed the company’s awareness of harms caused by some of its products and decisions.Ī selloff sent the social-media giant’s stock plummeting nearly 5 per cent on Wall Street, adding to a drop of about 15 per cent since mid-September.
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