‘Who broke the internet?!’ Major outages hit Bank of America, Southwest Airlines, Zoom, Snapchat & others after FB crash
(RT USA News)
Many of the world’s largest apps and websites, including for banks and airlines, faced a cascade of outages all in the space of a few hours, prompting panic among netizens as some demanded to know who broke the internet.
While the glitches affected a number of popular social media platforms – among them Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram and SnapChat – other more significant institutions also faced major tech issues on Monday, such as Bank of America, Southwest Airlines, the professional networking site LinkedIn and the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, all according to outage tracker DownDetector.
The tracking website noted that the problems at Facebook marked the “largest outage we’ve ever seen on DownDetector,” with more than “10.6 million problem reports from all over the globe.” However, the platform and Facebook-owned Instagram appear to have come back to life since, having been down for around six hours.
The Facebook outage continues and has become the largest outage we’ve ever seen on Downdetector with over 10.6 million problem reports from all over the globe. See the latest information with this recently updated post. https://t.co/OvrMQBOzr6
— Downdetector (@downdetector) October 4, 2021
Chat apps such as Zoom and Telegram, as well as Gmail – among the world’s most heavily trafficked email services – were also reportedly caught up in the internet-wide meltdown. All three have seen a major surge in use amid the Covid-19 pandemic, which has driven many firms to transition to more remote-work. Monday’s glitches were sure to cause headaches for countless professionals attempting to work from home, even prompting some to demand to know “who broke the internet.”
Wait now Outlook email is down as well? Who broke the internet today? pic.twitter.com/liSPn0P9Vo
— Ben White (@morningmoneyben) October 5, 2021
Who the hell broke the internet today?#12hourswithoutinternet
— $U€ FR@N (@agapevessel) October 4, 2021
Other users offered some novel theories as to what might have caused the outages, ranging from a widespread cyber-attack, a clandestine CIA operation, to the usual scapegoat – “the Russians.”
It’s the CIA dude…
— RevelationReady (@IH12963) October 4, 2021
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, a whole host of other social media platforms, and now Bank of America have had their systems go down…
Isn’t this how Skynet became self-aware?#kidding #onlykindakidding
— Danny Martinez (@D_Mart83) October 4, 2021
User reports indicate Bank of America is having problems since 4:56 PM EDT. https://t.co/GnJkbAdsV1 RT if you’re also having problems #BankofAmericadown
— Downdetector (@downdetector) October 4, 2021
It remains unclear exactly what caused the widespread outages on Monday, though a Facebook employee who declined to be named told NBC the company faced a DNS [Domain Name System] problem, referring to a ‘phone book’-like system used to look up individual websites. The employee added that there is “no reason at this point to suspect anything malicious,” but the outage nonetheless affected “pretty much everything” at Facebook before the issue was resolved later on Monday evening. The six-hour outage reportedly cost the platform a cool $6 billion.
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(TLB) Ed: ZeroHedge points out: Though we must point out the timing of the outage came one day before Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen arrived on Capitol Hill. She is currently telling lawmakers that the social media company has put “their astronomical profits before people.” She said Facebook’s products “harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy.” So the timing of the outage is very suspicious and superseded any news flow of the upcoming whistleblower heading to Congress.
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