Facebook experienced a global outage on Monday that also involved its properties – including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. Site DownDetector.com began tracking additional outages on Friday, beginning around 3 p.m. Eastern. Cisco’s internet analysis division, ThousandEyes, said the tech giant experienced a Domain Name System issue – a service which enables readable domains to connect to numeric IP addresses. Facebook’s vice president of infrastructure, Santosh Janardhan, apologized for the problems via a short blog post.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-suffer-widespread-outage-a-17669