WhatsApp Messaging Service Returns After Global Outage

WhatsApp Messaging Service Returns After Global Outage
A man poses with a smartphone in front of displayed Whatsapp logo in this illustration Sept. 14, 2017. Reuters/Dado Ruvic
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WhatsApp, a popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, suffered a global outage for about an hour on Sunday before the problem was fixed.

“WhatsApp users around the world experienced a brief outage today that has now been resolved”, a WhatsApp spokeswoman said in an emailed statement. The cause of the outage, about an hour long, was not immediately known.