MAJORITY of the Meta apps led by Facebook went back online after midnight, after scaring many Filipinos and other users that their account might be hacked.

On Tuesday before midnight, many Filipinos and users across the globe reported that they were logged out of their accounts and could not get in.

Richard Paul Catada, said he thought his account was hacked.

“I was changing passwords at that time when it happened,” he said.

But downdetector.com said that it happened to all users as a spike in outages for Facebook, Instagram and Messenger went up.

The Meta apps -Facebook, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger appeared to be experiencing technical problems.

Downdetector.com, a site that provides information about the online status of websites and social media platforms, shows the sites in red, with a massive spike in outages reported starting at around 11 p.m. Philippines time. 

All three social networking services are owned and developed by Meta Platforms Inc., formerly known as Facebook Inc.

Another app, Threads, the social network launched by Meta last year, have also reported outages.

Meta's status dashboard showed the application programming interface for WhatsApp Business was also facing issues.

Minutes after the outage became trending, Meta's communications director Andy Stone said the company is aware of the problem. 

"We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now," he said.