Earlier this year, an outage at a major DNS operator took out huge swaths of the internet briefly. AFP via Getty Imagesįacebook reportedly said in an internal memo to employees that it appeared “to be a DNS issue that is impacting both internal and external access to our tools and apps,” according to Dylan Byers, a senior correspondent for Puck News.Ī DNS, or Domain Name System, connects domain names to the right IP addresses so that people can access popular websites. ET, according to DownDetector, and were hitting users globally. and it’s unclear why the site’s address would be listed for sale. The organization behind the domain registration was still listed as Facebook, Inc. In a curious twist, by early afternoon, the domain name “” was listed for sale by Domain Tools. Twitter users responded by mocking the company, saying that “the world would be better if you just left it all switched off” and that “we’re actually enjoying the lack of disinformation and misinformation.” We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.” While an email to Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone bounced back, he wrote on Twitter, “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, FileĪ small team of employees were dispatched to Facebook’s Santa Clara data center to try a “manual reset” of the company’s servers, according to the internal memo obtained by The Times, though the outage hampered some recovery efforts.Īt the same time, several Facebook workers, including Instagram chief Adam Mosseri, equated the outage to a “snow day.” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth took a more than $6 billion hit after the outage. The outage also disrupted internal Facebook systems, including security, a company calendar and scheduling tools, The Times reported, adding that some Facebook employees weren’t even able to enter buildings due to the outage. Zuckerberg is now worth about $121.6 billion, down from almost $140 billion just a couple weeks ago, according to Bloomberg. 9, 2020.įacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth took a more than $6 billion hit on Monday, sending him below Microsoft founder Bill Gates to No. It was the stock’s biggest one-day plummet since Nov. Hours after Facebook’s family of apps began displaying error messages, the company’s security experts were still trying to identify the cause, The New York Times reported, citing an internal memo and employees briefed on the matter.įacebook’s global security operations center reportedly classified the outage as “a HIGH risk to the People, MODERATE risk to Assets and a HIGH risk to the Reputation of Facebook,” according to a company memo.Īs Facebook scrambled to solve the issue, investors ditched the stock, sending almost 5 percent lower to $326.23 per share. “We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible.” “*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now,” he tweeted. While Facebook has yet to identify the root of the issue, cybersecurity experts said it does not appear to be a cyberattack and instead seems to be linked to internal issues with Facebook’s systems.Īs the outage stretched into the late afternoon, Facebook chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer issued an apology to users.
ET, according to DownDetector, and hit users globally, taking out critical communications platforms that billions of people and businesses rely on everyday. Meta exec tells managers to ‘exit’ workers who are ‘coasting’ and ‘failing’įacebook offered “sincere apologies” Monday afternoon as a sweeping outage of its site and various other properties, including Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, stretched for more than six hours and helped to wipe more than $50 billion off Facebook’s market cap - the stock’s worst day of trading in almost a year. Princess Di Facebook group issues strange ‘self-love’ warning to members Facebook owner Meta releases first human rights reportįacebook tests letting users have up to five profiles on one account