Facebook seems to be under a cyber-attack

[AZLD4Candidate]

If you can log in, you can't do anything as you keep getting "error" messages.

Looks like they are under a hacker attack right now.

[helpisontheway]

1. On the App I can see posts from this morning. However if I click to

reply nothing comes up.

[underpants]

2. I can't reply to anything so far.

[berni_mccoy]

3. They most certainly are. Most likely by anonymous or jester

[JohnQFunk]

4. Unlikely to be a cyberattack; more likely they hosed their own servers with a bungled update

Looks like they hosed their DNS routing!

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/4/22709654/instagram-facebook-outage-whatsapp-oculus

Facebook is back online after a six-hour outage due to DNS routing problems. The outage took down Instagram, Whatsapp, Messenger, and Oculus VR as well. For some, those services are back online now; however, after a DNS issue like this, it could take hours for everything to work properly on every network.

The outage started just before noon ET on Monday. It was the most significant outage for Facebook since a 2019 incident took its site offline for more than 24 hours.

On Twitter, Facebook communications exec Andy Stone said, “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”

Inside Facebook, the outage broke internal systems as well, leaving employees unable to get into offices and communicate easily with each other. Some told The Verge they were using work-provided Outlook email accounts, allowing Facebook workers to email each other but unable to send or receive emails from external addresses.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

5. Seems to be back

But it was down a good 7-8 hours. Apparently someone fucked up their DNS, and also took down all their internal tools as well - not an outside hack though, internal.

[LonePirate]

6. The sites are down due to DNS issue which tells devices where to find FB and IG

See this link for an explainer:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/what-happened-to-facebook-instagram-whatsapp/

[dweller]

7. No problems here

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[abqtommy]

8. It's evidently a self-inflicted situation with Facebook's Border Gateway Protocol

System. See this DU link:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215922139