Rumours swirl that Facebook was HACKED
RUMOURS have been mounting that Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram have been hacked as one joker has mockingly placed the site up for sale for $1 billion.
All three platforms, which are owned by Facebook, have been forced to confirm on its rival service Twitter to confirm to its users that they were working to fix the global outage.
Scott Helme, a cybersecurity expert, told the BBC the outage did not just affect Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
He said: “We’ve also been to websites and seen things like the log in with Facebook button which currently doesn’t work.
“So, even completely unrelated services and websites are currently struggling because features that depend on Facebook are also not working.
“The impact of this is much wider than not being able to go on Facebook.
“It seems like somebody actually needs to go to the servers to fix this.”
