Government asks Meta to explain WhatsApp outage – The Economic Times

SynopsisThe Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) wants to know if WhatsApp’s outage was due to an internal glitch or a cyberattack.iStockThe Meta-owned instant messaging platform is the most popular application, with over two billion monthly active users globally.The government has written to Meta India asking for the reasons behind the almost two-hour WhatsApp outage on Tuesday, said people with knowledge of the matter. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) wants to know if the disruption of the instant messaging platform was due to an internal glitch or a cyberattack, they said. In its letter sent on Wednesday, the IT ministry has also asked WhatsApp to coordinate with the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) to ascertain whether there was any untoward cyber incident with regard to the company’s servers during the time, the sources said. “We have asked them if the outage was due to internal factors or some external cyberattack. They will respond with the relevant details in a few days,” a senior ministry official said. Read | WhatsApp outage: Meta says the messaging service is back WhatsApp didn’t respond to ET’s queries. Discover the stories of your interest Users weren’t able to send or…
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