The three apps –WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram – which are all owned by Facebook, and run on shared infrastructure – stopped working around 15:45 GMT.
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Other related products, such as Facebook Messenger and Workplace, have also stopped working.
As at the time of publishing this, it is unclear what really caused the issue although the company has suffered outages before.
Downdetector, which only tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform, showed there were more than 50,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and Instagram.
Outage tracker Downdetector was showing outages in heavily populated areas like Washington and Paris, with problems being reported from around 15:45 GMT. This massive outage on Monday, has undoubtedly affected tens of millions of users.
Unconfirmed report has it that the websites and other important sites are DOWN, due to a DDoS attack worldwide. In computing, a denial-of-service attack is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of the host connected to the Internet. Main countries affected, United States, Russia, China, Chile as well as some African contries such as Ghana.
However, other social networks such as Telegram and Twitter seems to be working just fine. Many Twitter users have have been talking about it for hours with the hashtag #MarkZuckerberg and #WhatsApp trending with over 2.5 million tweets.
WhatsApp however tweeted on their official Twitter handle that they were aware of the situation and are quickly working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
