Earlier, the company acknowledged the problem on Twitter and said it was working to get everything up and running soon. Facebook said the problem was caused by a networking issue. Facebook hasn’t said what caused the outage, but it’s unlikely it was related to a cybersecurity attack, two Facebook security team members told The New York Times, speaking on the condition of anonymity. What caused it When Facebook went down last evening, its other services went. "If your game isn't running as usual, please note that there's been an issue with Facebook login servers and the moment this gets fixed all will be back to normal," puzzle game app Match Masters said on its Twitter account. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp came back online Monday after an outage that lasted more than six hours. Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp back online after hours of global shutdown. Several subscribers using their Facebook credentials to log in to third-party apps such as Pokemon Go and Match Masters were also facing issues. We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can."įacebook shares fell 5.5 percent in afternoon trading on Monday, inching towards its worst day in nearly a year.įacebook has experienced similar widespread outages with its suite of apps this year in March and July. Pacific time, the social network's namesake app, along with. Users trying to access Facebook in affected areas were greeted with the message: "Something went wrong. Facebook and its entire family of apps are gradually becoming reachable after a lengthy outage Monday morning. "We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products," Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said on Twitter. According to DownDetector (a real-time online outage website), users of Facebook began reporting issues just after 8am EST and Instagram reports staring. Tracker Downdetector was showing outages in heavily populated areas including Washington and Paris, with problems being reported from around 3:45 p.m. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were hit by a massive outage Monday, impacting potentially tens of millions of users.