WhatsApp starts working again after global outage
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2024 6:14 am
WhatsApp, a messaging app owned by Meta Group, was hit by a global outage on Tuesday morning, October 25. The outage is now over, according to Meta. "We know people had trouble sending messages on WhatsApp today ," a spokesperson for the California-based company said, adding: "We have resolved the issue and apologize." The cause of the outage has not yet been specified.
According to specialist website Downdetector , problems began to appear shortly after 9am (Paris time). At least 70,000 people around the world had used the site to report outages, including from France, India and the United Kingdom.
A precedent last year
WhatsApp, which surpassed two billion users overseas chinese in australia data worldwide in February 2020, is one of the most popular free messaging services in the world. It was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for just over $19 billion, the largest acquisition ever made by Mark Zuckerberg's group. On Tuesday morning, on Twitter, the hashtag #whatsappdown ("WhatsApp is down") was among the most popular trends worldwide.
Meta's services, social networks Facebook and Instagram, as well as messaging services WhatsApp and Messenger, had already suffered an outage of more than six hours of all its services last year. Mark Zuckerberg's company then attributed this outage, "the most significant (...) ever observed" by Downdetector, to a "faulty configuration change" of its servers.
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“Connecting through a proxy server maintains the high level of privacy and security offered by WhatsApp. Personal messages will always be protected by end-to-end encryption, which means that they will remain between the people communicating and no one else will be able to see them, not even WhatsApp or Meta proxy servers ,” WhatsApp writes. Individuals as well as non-
governmental organizations can create proxy servers directly. At the same time, the EDPS has also asked the DPC to conduct a new investigation to delve deeper into Meta's use of personal data. But the Irish authority believes that the European regulator does not have the power to order it "to engage in an open and speculative investigation" , according to its press release, and is preparing to lodge an action for annulment of this request before the European Court.
According to specialist website Downdetector , problems began to appear shortly after 9am (Paris time). At least 70,000 people around the world had used the site to report outages, including from France, India and the United Kingdom.
A precedent last year
WhatsApp, which surpassed two billion users overseas chinese in australia data worldwide in February 2020, is one of the most popular free messaging services in the world. It was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for just over $19 billion, the largest acquisition ever made by Mark Zuckerberg's group. On Tuesday morning, on Twitter, the hashtag #whatsappdown ("WhatsApp is down") was among the most popular trends worldwide.
Meta's services, social networks Facebook and Instagram, as well as messaging services WhatsApp and Messenger, had already suffered an outage of more than six hours of all its services last year. Mark Zuckerberg's company then attributed this outage, "the most significant (...) ever observed" by Downdetector, to a "faulty configuration change" of its servers.
Blockades in Iran
“Connecting through a proxy server maintains the high level of privacy and security offered by WhatsApp. Personal messages will always be protected by end-to-end encryption, which means that they will remain between the people communicating and no one else will be able to see them, not even WhatsApp or Meta proxy servers ,” WhatsApp writes. Individuals as well as non-
governmental organizations can create proxy servers directly. At the same time, the EDPS has also asked the DPC to conduct a new investigation to delve deeper into Meta's use of personal data. But the Irish authority believes that the European regulator does not have the power to order it "to engage in an open and speculative investigation" , according to its press release, and is preparing to lodge an action for annulment of this request before the European Court.