The "culprit" who brought down Facebook globally confesses.

The hacker group Anonymous Sudan has claimed to be "joining forces" with Skynet and Godzilla to take down Meta's Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Threads globally.

Writing on Telegram, the hacker group Anonymous Sudan claimed: "We, along with Skynet and Godzilla, collaborated on a cyberattack that resulted in a global Facebook outage."

Anonymous Sudan, along with Skynet and Godzilla, collaborated last December to attack and disrupt the Discord login page. The group has also been linked to several other incidents, including the attack on OpenAI's ChatGPT.

"Anonymous Sudan did not give prior notice of attacking Facebook this time, unlike how they usually do. Therefore, the group may be spreading misinformation. There is currently no evidence of the attack on the evening of March 5th," the cybersecurity company Cyberint wrote on its official website.

Meta stated that the global Facebook outage was due to a "technical error," but the hacker group Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for the incident. Photo: Daily Mail

Around 10:30 PM on March 5th, many people's Facebook and Instagram accounts were unexpectedly logged out when used on both computers and phones.

All attempts by the user to log in again are in vain as the browser continuously displays the message "website unavailable, link broken or deleted".

On Downdetector, a tool that monitors the performance of internet services, within just 10 minutes of around 10:30 PM on March 5th, the number of outage reports from users of various platforms including Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and Threads surged to nearly 400,000; WhatsApp remained unaffected.

Although the hacker group Anonymous Sudan has claimed responsibility, Mate has yet to publicly disclose any reason for the simultaneous shutdown of its social media platforms.

Source: https://nld.com.vn/thu-pham-tu-thu-danh-sap-facebook-toan-cau-196240307182054398.htm