The boy who hacked Facebook and Whatsapp was revealed. If You have facebook Whatsapp or instagram chances are you noticed on the 4th of 2021 that there was something wrong. Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram went off line for more than 6 hours. The websites were not working and also the apps were not working.
Ask yourself why three of them at the same time ? Yes it can happen but chances are almost 2% this to happen to a big company like facebook.
Are they all using one server ? We don’t know but based on my understanding I don’t think they can risk that much.
Was it a coincident that three of them to get a technical problem ? I don’t also believe that.
Was facebook hacked before ? Yes facebook was hacked before and I believe each and everyday people try to hack it.
“Individuals signing up to a reputable company like Facebook are trusting them with their data and Facebook [is] supposed to treat the data with utmost respect,” Gal said. “Users having their personal information leaked is a huge breach of trust and should be handled accordingly.”
it is said that 533 million Facebook users’ phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online.
business insider reported that “
The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum.The data includes phone numbers, full names, location, email address, and biographical information.
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Mark Nicoll 3.5% said on twitter : Given South Africa isn’t on the list, I assume that number is for there. Though how you miss a whole word out of a country name, I don’t know.
“Not only are Facebook’s services and apps down for the public, its internal tools and communications platforms, including Workplace, are out as well,” New York Times tech reporter Ryan Mac tweeted. “No one can do any work. Several people I’ve talked to said this is the equivalent of a ‘snow day’ at the company.”
“In the past year or so, we’ve seen a lot of these big outages where they had some sort of update to their global network configuration that went awry,” Madory said. “We obviously can’t rule out someone hacking them, but they also could have done this to themselves.”
krebsonsecurity gave us the following information
Update, 4:37 p.m. ET: Sheera Frenkel with The New York Times tweeted that Facebook employees told her they were having trouble accessing Facebook buildings because their employee badges no longer worked. That could be one reason this outage has persisted so long: Facebook engineers may be having trouble physically accessing the computer servers needed to upload new BGP records to the global Internet.
Update, 6:16 p.m. ET: A trusted source who spoke with a person on the recovery effort at Facebook was told the outage was caused by a routine BGP update gone wrong. The source explained that the errant update blocked Facebook employees — the majority of whom are working remotely — from reverting the changes. Meanwhile, those with physical access to Facebook’s buildings couldn’t access Facebook’s internal tools because those were all tied to the company’s stranded domains.
Update, 7:46 p.m. ET: Facebook says its domains are slowly coming back online for most users. In a tweet, the company thanked users for their patience, but it still hasn’t offered any explanation for the outage.
Update, 8:05 p.m. ET: This fascinating thread on Hacker News delves into some of the not-so-obvious side effects of today’s outages: Many organizations saw network disruptions and slowness thanks to billions of devices constantly asking for the current coordinates of Facebook.com, Instagram.com and WhatsApp.com. Bill Woodcock, executive director of the Packet Clearing House, said his organization saw a 40 percent increase globally in wayward DNS traffic throughout the outage.
Update, 8:32 p.m. ET: Cloudflare has published a detailed and somewhat technical writeup on the BGP changes that caused today’s outage. Still no word from Facebook on what happened.
Update, 11:32 p.m. ET: Facebook published a blog post saying the outage was the result of a faulty configuration change:
“Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication,” Facebook’s Santosh Janardhan wrote. “This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt.”
“We want to make clear at this time we believe the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change,” Janardhan continued. “We also have no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime.”
Several different domain registration companies today listed the domain Facebook.com as up for sale. This happened thanks to automated systems that look for registered domains which appear to be expired, abandoned or recently vacated. There was never any reason to believe Facebook.com would actually be sold as a result, but it’s fun to consider how many billions of dollars it could fetch on the open market.
The boy who hacked Facebook and WhatsApp was revealed
According to what you have read above if all turns out to be true , there is no way that the 13 year old Chinese boy could have managed to do all that. On twitter people claim that a Chinese boy called Sun Jisu hacked Facebook , Twitter and Whatsapp.
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The bad thing about those big companies they will never tell you if they get hacked up until the hackers themselves come out and claim the attacks. Guess what me and you we get affected the most because our information can be stolen and exposed to the or get sold. The information on facebook’s servers is for people but not facebook.
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