facebook 'lock' down worldwide #facebookdown
— Munzir Ahmad (@iamhacker) December 5, 2018
Update (December 05):
Well, Facebook acted quickly to fix whatever caused the glitch. But the way everyone was logged out of their account did trigger speculations that was there some sort of security breach?
Original story follows:
Last month, Facebook and related services suffered a major downtime which lasted for at least a couple of hours. And today, it’s coming to light that the world’s largest social network is down again in many regions around the world.
While information is scarce at the moment, we are seeing users taking to social media platforms to share that they are not able to log into the service. Take a look:
https://twitter.com/NoorFatimaKhan1/status/1070312531514834945
I was logged out of Facebook and I can't log back in.
— Max Lohest (@maxlamenace25) December 5, 2018
Anyone else has the same issue ? #facebookdown #Facebook
This is not a drill! I repeat, THIS IS NOT A DRILL! Facebook is down! Facebook is down!#FacebookDown pic.twitter.com/to0p3F6pd7
— Andrei Popa (@Deaglesun) December 5, 2018
Facebook is having issues since 13:29. https://t.co/dpvN4sgWNJ RT if it's down for you as well #Facebookdown
— DowndetectorUK (@DowndetectorUK) December 5, 2018
While we collect more information on the matter, you can follows the #facebookdown hastag on Twitter for continuous user updates on the matter.
This story is developing….
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