Facebook and Instagram users have taken to the internet to report problems with Meta sites amid fears they have been hacked.
Users have reported issues accessing Facebook and Instagram amid fears that Meta may have been hacked, according to unconfirmed reports on social media.
The website Down Detector reported hundreds of thousands of users struggling to access Meta sites including Instagram, Facebook and Facebook Messenger.
Maps show the extent of the outage, which spans across the entirety of the USA.
One person wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter: “Has Facebook just booted anyone else out of their account and keeps giving random error messages anytime you try to log back in or is it just me? #Facebook #Facebookdown.”
Another asked: “Has Facebook been hacked? It has closed out and tells you to log back in. When you try, states the password is wrong.”
A new map has revealed the hotspot areas reporting that Facebook is down, and shows hubs along the West Coast where most people are reporting issues with accessing the platform.
Areas such as Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles have all had a high number of reports, according to the map from Down Detector.
There are also reports that Instagram is down, though it isn’t yet known what caused the issues.
We’re aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now.
— Andy Stone (@andymstone) March 5, 2024
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on X: Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services.
“We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
The outage seems to have affected various Meta-owned platforms, including Instagram, with users encountering login problems and being told their passwords are incorrect.
Meta’s status page said: “We are aware of an issue impacting Facebook Login. Our engineering teams are actively looking to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.”
Messaging platform WhatsApp, which Meta also owns, does not appear to be impacted by the problems.
Source: https://www.the-express.com/tech/tech-news/130077/facebook-instagram-down-meta-hack