On the evening of March 5, 2024, all Meta services except WhatsApp came to a standstill. Users of Instagram, Facebook, and Thread remained disturbed for about one and a half hours, although services were later restored, but the reasons behind this are not yet known. Meta has not yet given any exact reason for this. During the outage, users' timelines were not refreshing.
Apart from this, many accounts were getting logged out automatically. On this outage, X owner Elon Musk took a dig and said that if you are seeing this post then it means that our services are fine and our server is working. Cyber attacks are being said to be the reason behind this outage of Meta.
Many experts have claimed that this outage could also be a part of the cyber attack that took place in America a few days ago. Let's try to understand, was there a cyber attack on Meta?
Chinese hackers are behind the outage of Meta!
There is a suspicion of cyber attack behind this outage because even though only Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and Threads were down in India, the services of many other companies in America were also stalled. According to DownDetector and a Were.
Let us tell you that recently there was a cyber attack on the healthcare system in America, after which many hospitals were not able to bill the mediclaims of the people. This attack took place on the healthcare payment system itself. Just a day later, the outage of Meta is also being linked to this cyber attack. Due to this attack on the healthcare payment system, hospital services in America have collapsed.
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