Story update after outage was resolved.
Social media giant Facebook suffered a worldwide outage that prevented users from accessing their accounts.
When visiting the site, users were greeted with a message stating there account is temporarily unavailable.
“Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to be resolved shortly. Please try again in a few minutes,” reads the outage message.
Source: BleepingComputer
According to DownDetector, the outage began around 4:15 PM ET and is impacting accounts worldwide.
However, the Meta status page only claims there are “High Disruptions” to the Facebook ad manager, Instagram Boost, and the WhatsApp Business API.
BleepingComputer contacted Facebook with questions about the outage and will update the story if we hear back.
Update 6:21 PM ET: The Facebook outage has now been resolved, with users once again able to access their accounts.
However, Facebook has yet to provide any information as to what caused the outage.
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