Facebook's Chief Tech Officer offers 'sincere apologies' for global five-hour outage (and counting) across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and blames 'networking issues': Zuckerberg loses $7bn in HOURS as shares nosedive
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went down at around 11.50am EST on Monday and remain broken
All went dark after a 'flurry' of changes to the system that allows people to access its sites on the internet
The damage is believed to have been caused by an internal error rather than any malicious attack
It remains unfixed with escalating damage done - already the outage is estimated to have cost $160million
Facebook won't say what caused the outage or how long it will last but experts say it will be a mammoth task bringing the networks back online
The outage sparked panic among businesses that rely on the site - and humor on rival site Twitter
There were initial reports that telecommunications networks were also down but those were driven by people being unable to use the apps on their mobile devices
By Jennifer Smith and Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com
Published: 13:05 EDT, 4 October 2021 | Updated: 17:27 EDT, 4 October 2021
Facebook's Chief Technology Officer offered his 'sincere apologies' on Monday afternoon as a global outage of the website along with Instagram and WhatsApp stretched into its fifth hour,
costing the company $50billion and CEO Mark Zuckerberg $7billion and counting. The cause of the outage is believed to have been changes made to Facebook's systems at 11.50am EST.
It is believed they were caused in error and were not a cyber attack, but Facebook is yet to confirm the cause of the outage.
It sparked global outages that are detrimental to online businesses and decimate the company's ad-wielding power.
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