Facebook down for two hours across Europe, May be DDOS attack! May be a problem with Facebook’s European DNS servers. The blackout also affected users in France, Germany, Russia and South Africa. Belgian government agency claimed that the outage was due to a DDoS hacker attack, but this has not been confirmed. Later Facebook announce that the issue has been resolved and everyone should now have access to Facebook. We apologise for any inconvenience. Facebook has about 845 million active users worldwide, last monthannounced plans to raise $5bn in an stock market flotation expected to value the company at between $75bn and $100bn.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2012/03/facebook-down-for-two-hours-across.html