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Problems at Facebook and its products resumed on Monday, just an hour after the company sounded the green light on one of the longest outages in its recent history, according to Downdetector, which tracks such disruptions.
Downdetector said WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Facebook Messenger users resumed reporting issues at 4:48 p.m. PT. Earlier, at 3:30 p.m., he said the outage appeared to be over and reports of access issues had subsided.
The initial outage, which saw more than 10.6 million reports of Facebook product outages, was already one of the longest and most widespread in company history.
“To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry,” Facebook said in a statement shortly after the initial outage was reportedly corrected. “We have worked hard to restore access to our applications and services and are happy to announce that they are coming back online now.”
Users of Facebook and its Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram products all reported problems with the services as early as Monday night in the United States, cutting off access worldwide.
It was unclear exactly what caused the outages or whether the company had been the target of a deliberate attack, although security experts said a potential cause would be a technical error in the configuration of services. Facebook’s chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer wrote on Twitter that the company “was experiencing networking issues.”
The issues arose the day before Frances Haugen, a whistleblower who left the company earlier this year, was scheduled to testify at a Senate hearing.
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