FB Down

[Narcisus]

Went off about 15 mins ago

[Big Rod]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13...

[Your Dad]

[Mazinbrum]

That’s a relief, thought I’d been hacked.

[ajprice]

[Narcisus]

Your Dad said:

Yes but I was halfway through a very important message to the Mrs asking what Whisky I wanted fetching from the supermarket !

[Wing Commander]

Mazinbrum said:

That’s a relief, thought I’d been hacked.

Thought exactly the same thing. I dont really care much for FB, but begrudgingly use it for some business stuff, but the idea that if they have hacked that, then they might have access to other P/Ws etc. Eugh. Amazing how stressed that made me for a few mins!

[Jamescrs]

So it seems, oh well

[Narcisus]

Mazinbrum said:

That’s a relief, thought I’d been hacked.

Nice one reason I posted

[toon10]

Jesus Christ, we've got two new starters in HR coming next week. How am I supposed to stalk for bikini holiday pics now?

[otolith]

[TikTak]

Yeah straight on https://downdetector.co.uk/ to see.

Meta as a whole it would seem.

[Roderick Spode]

Also thought I'd been hacked.

I recall some years ago an aged relative's account was hacked, as their password was probably cat123 or something, and we had the nightmare of all jobs trying to get it recovered.

[Shiv_P]

TikTak said:

Yeah straight on https://downdetector.co.uk/ to see.

Meta as a whole it would seem.

Not whatsapp fortunately!

[Wing Commander]

Someone is seriously screwing with the internet today then!

Downdetector has outage spikes at almost identical times for the following (yes I realise many of these are all under the same parent companies, but many are not)

FB
Instagram
FB Messenger
Youtube
Whatsapp
Google
Google Play
X/Twitter
Discord
Gmail
O2
EE
Tiktok
Snapchat
AWS (this could be one of the lynchpins to the problems)
Google maps
OpenAI

Wow!

[tight fart]

Roderick Spode said:

Also thought I'd been hacked.

I recall some years ago an aged relative's account was hacked, as their password was probably cat123 or something, and we had the nightmare of all jobs trying to get it recovered.

That’s a coincidence, what’s the chances of having my password?

Edited by tight fart on Tuesday 5th March 16:19

[2172cc]

Mazinbrum said:

That’s a relief, thought I’d been hacked.

Me too.....been messing about trying to log back on for about 20 mins.

[Roderick Spode]

tight fart said:

Roderick Spode said:

Also thought I'd been hacked.

I recall some years ago an aged relative's account was hacked, as their password was probably cat123 or something, and we had the nightmare of all jobs trying to get it recovered.

That’s a coincidence, what’s the chances of having my passport?

Your PIN code isn't '1234' by any chance?

Sometimes all the extra security implemented by banks etc. is infuriating, but sadly necessary in today's increasingly complicated world.

[bodhi]

Roderick Spode said:

Your PIN code isn't '1234' by any chance?

Sometimes all the extra security implemented by banks etc. is infuriating, but sadly necessary in today's increasingly complicated world.

1234? Sounds like the code an idiot would have on their luggage.

Had the same about 30 mins ago, got logged out and couldn't log back in again. Went on X instead which seems to be still working.

[Langweilig]

It seems to be a worldwide problem, although I logged on to Down Detector and there are 539,737 reports of an outage. 76% of Facebook users report login problems.