Whatsapp Outage: Government Asks Meta To Provide A Report On The Blackout, details here

Whatsapp Outage: After an outage on Tuesday that lasted for almost two hours, the government is now investigating WhatsApp as a potential security risk. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) has requested a report on the cause of the outage from Meta, which it has requested be submitted.

It has been requested that the American corporation provide an explanation for the cause of the outage

ICERT, the government organization that serves as the nodal point for cybersecurity, will need Meta to submit the report to them. According to sources that Meity has spoken to for Business Today TV, it is the standard operating procedure for Meity to take action whenever there is a disruption of any kind to the internet inside India's geographical area. According to the sources, Meta has been asked to provide a report on why WhatsApp was unavailable in India on Tuesday. The blackout occurred on Tuesday.

On Tuesday about noon, there was a problem with WhatsApp that prevented users from sending or receiving messages for around two hours. The power failure had a significant and widespread effect across the nation.

Text messages could neither be sent nor received by users

Even phone and video calls made over WhatsApp were not working. During these two hours, several essential features and services, including WhatsApp Business and WhatsApp Pay, were inoperable, including the Status feature.

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After the services were back up and running, Meta did not disclose any significant information regarding the disruption in service. The IT company has told their customers that the outage was caused by a technical mistake on their end. They stated that in their statement.

This Week in Business, The brief outage was caused by a technical error on our part, which has since been fixed.

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