Facebook users in Europe were able to the site Wednesday morning temporarily not reachable. It is unclear what the reason of the problems were. Earlier this week there were evidence that ddos attacks are through hacked servers coming up.
Wednesday morning, between approximately 06.00 and 09.00 hours was Twitter awash with reports of users that Facebook could not reach. The fault seems to be only in Europe occurred, and the notifications come mainly from Northern Europe. At approximately 09: 00 appeared many messages that connect with the social network was possible, although the problems are not all gone by seem to be.
It is unclear yet what the cause of the temporary failure. There is speculation about dns problems, while there are also rumors about a possible hack doing the rounds. Facebook itself has still no status update.
In addition, the interference at a remarkable time. Tuesday reported hosting company ProServe that Monday from its servers, a ddos attack was started to the servers of Facebook. Scripts were doing to drive traffic to Facebook to send over port 53, after a few customer’s servers via a vulnerability in Parallels Plesk Panel hacked.
This hack was done through a vulnerability in Plesk that already existed and maybe in the last few weeks or months, so with other hosting companies in the similar ways it is abused. Already decided hosting company Strato after hacking attempts servers with legacy Plesk versions to close. Plesk-maker Parallels has a new version available, but not all customers that own control over their server, have this version installed.