Facebook outage News

The personal data of over 1.5 billion individuals on a hacker forum has been discovered. It includes names, email addresses, localities, genders, phone numbers, and Facebook User ID information. The seller claimed that the company had been in business for four years and had served over 18,000 customers.

Once connectivity was restored, services were brought back gradually to avoid traffic surges. Engineers scrambled to fix the problem on site, but this took time because of the extra layers of security.

Facebook takes tens of millions of dollars of advertising revenue every day. 

Downdetector.com, which monitors websites, showed that many Facebook users in the US, Europe, South America and Asia are facing trouble in accessing the site.

Facebook Inc on Monday said a technical problem prevented some users from accessing and posting on the social network as well as messaging app Whatsapp and Instagram, and it had mostly fixed the issue.

Many users across the globe faced outage on Facebook and Instagram, with a flash message from the company saying the website undergoing "required maintenance".

 Facebook Inc restored access to its social media website for most users on Monday afternoon, after its second outage in less than a week.

Facebook.com was up for most users, except in some parts of western Europe, nearly four hours after an outage was first observed.

Will you call 911 if Facebook goes off the radar? This is exactly some users in Los Angeles did when the popular social networking site Friday suffered its second brief outage in two months.

Facebook took the blame on Friday for a brief outage that resulted in a flood of comments -- chiefly on rival social network Twitter.