After Facebook was “breached” by hackers, thousands of users woke up on Wednesday only to find out that they can no longer receive notifications on the social media platform.

Speaking to Facebook Business Support, I asked why notifications had stopped appearing and I was told:

“Meta was recently breached by a group of hackers and they are messing up many features. Meta is currently working to get this fixed.”

The issue doesn’t seem to impact most Facebook users, but a sizable community is growing on Reddit and Facebook itself, with one group now having over 12,000 members.

The issue, as mentioned above, seems to have started on Wednesday morning.

I reached out to the Facebook press team, but they have yet to respond. I will update this when I know more.

George Allison
George has a degree in Cyber Security from Glasgow Caledonian University and has a keen interest in naval and cyber security matters and has appeared on national radio and television to discuss current events. George is on Twitter at @geoallison

17 COMMENTS

  1. And they whine at this when Ukrainian kids are being killed, women raped and mass graves found containing people who have been tortured? When half the world will probably go cold and hungry this Winter? Frankly who cares about social media anyway? A sign of how the world has its priorities very skewed.

  2. Oh no! No new notifications! How will I know my 2nd cousin twice removed is the bell end I always suspected he was if I don’t receive notification of his post detailing his stupidity.
    I don’t really use Facebook, I gave up on that social nonsense years ago. It has its uses but gifting them all my worldly knowledge and thoughts is not one of them. In my opinion.

    • Gone are the days of leaders like Henry Ford paying his car builders enough so they could afford a Model T. Now we have Mark *uckerberg and dumber than a bag of rocks, chicom/russian bitch boy Elon Musk, about to take over all of social media. Seems sustainable doesn’t it? Not a chance. Those two are on a collission course with democracy as we know it. The young, wannabe hip adults/teens who should be leading a revolution against these two, are instead completely compromised and let their social lives revolve around *uckerberg’s Instagram app. At least the idiots where I am.

        • *uckerberg’s companies are a haven for criminals and narcissists by formula. The more time you have on your hands > the more you can invest in manipulation of a virtual reality > and the more important you can appear. They can turn societies upside down and at their extreme, can legitimize and keep bulletproof a politician like Trump. Other good descriptions I’ve heard, “Facebook and Instagram are mesmerization machines designed to suck out your time and energy and (therefore) enslave you.” As well as, “Go ahead and tuck reality in your pocket and immerse your narcissism in one of Mark *uckerberg’s many virtual worlds.”

  3. Who gives a monkeys toss whether F$%kB*£k is working! and what has it to do with UK Def? hopefully HighWycombe, Andover ond Pompey don’t rely on it!! Whitehall is another matter but most of what comes from there is just hotair & BS.
    Deleted all Social stuff 3 years ago………best thing ever did 🙂

  4. Incoming article about NATO’s ‘social media security’?

    Actually I don’t really see the relevance to UK defence. Unless this is meant to slow the response time of public opinion to some event.

  5. I’ve been without notifications since Wednesday and trust me it sucks… What’s taking the technicians so long to fix this… They’re quick to block us if we posted something that doesn’t meet their “standards” but cannot fix notifications in days.. Geez😏🚮

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