On Tuesday night, Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger suddenly stopped working. When people tried to run the apps, millions of people around the world including India were locked out of their social media accounts. However, after about an hour this service started working again. The company has not yet told what was the reason for such a big outage on their platform. Although it is believed that this happened due to DDOS attack, but what is this DDOS attack. Let us find out.
What is DDOS attack?
According to experts, it is possible that this may have happened due to DDOS attack. Let us tell you that in this type of cyber attack, many people try to login to the server simultaneously, which is much more than its fixed capacity. Not only this, most of the users are also fake. DDOS attacks are carried out through BOTS, which are a type of computer robot. This is called user attack in cyber term.
WhatsApp remains active
WhatsApp was working even after the closure of Insta and Facebook. Let us tell you that these services were stopped not only in India but all over the world. People said that both of them logged out on their own while using the social network. Many people said that their session had expired. After these apps stopped working, lakhs of people complained about it on social media platform X. Along with this, people’s apps, messengers and threads associated with these accounts had also stopped working. According to the outage tracking website, more than 3,00,000 people complained about outage for Facebook, while more than 20,000 people complained about Instagram being down.