'It could well be a human error or a software bug lurking in the shadows but whatever it is Facebook needs to do its best to mitigate the problem of causing more panic about this. He told the PA news agency: 'There have been many reports and I'm struggling to find out exactly what has happened- I'm reading it could be DNS related, which means there is an issue with the connection not knowing where to go to your device. Joking about the huge influx of users who have rushed to its app and website – to check whether other people are suffering with the same issue, and to find out whether Facebook or WhatsApp has revealed when users can expect to be back online – Twitter shared a tweet that reads: 'hello literally everyone' Have WhatsApp, Facebook and Instragam been hacked?Ĭyber security specialist Jake Moore said there is a 'chance' the issue could be related to a cyber attack. This is also an indication that something has gone awry with WhatsApp. Some users will also see the words 'Connecting.' appear instead of your contact's name and profile picture at the top of a conversation within the app. If you wait long enough, WhatsApp will hang up throw you back to the main interface of the app. but you won't get an answer as the messaging service isn't able to connect to the servers.

When trying to make a voice or video call to a recipient, the usual call interface will appear as normal and WhatsApp will say that it is 'calling'. These same symbols appear in the corner of picture messages, videos, PDFs, and more. When those double-ticks turn blue, it means the recipient has opened WhatsApp and read the text message. That turns into a double-tick when the text travels from those servers to the recipient's smartphone. WhatsApp uses a single tick to denote when your text has reached its servers. This indicates that the message hasn't been able to leave your device.

Users who attempt to send texts on WhatsApp right now will see a small clock icon in the bottom right-hand corner of the message. New virus secretly scamming £25 per month out of ten million Android users.

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