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UPDATE 1-WhatsApp back online after global outage of 'a few hours'

Published 2017-05-03, 07:52 p/m
© Reuters.  UPDATE 1-WhatsApp back online after global outage of 'a few hours'
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(Recasts with outage resolved)

May 3 (Reuters) - WhatsApp, a popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc FB.O , suffered a widespread global outage on Wednesday that lasted for several hours before being resolved, the company said.

"Earlier today, WhatsApp users in all parts of the world were unable to access WhatsApp for a few hours. We have now fixed the issue and apologize for the inconvenience," WhatsApp said in an email late Wednesday afternoon.

WhatsApp was down in parts of India, Canada, the United States and Brazil, according to Reuters journalists. It affected people who use the service on Apple Inc's AAPL.O iOS operating system, Alphabet Inc's GOOGL.O Android and Microsoft Corp 's MSFT.O Windows mobile OS.

WhatsApp's is used by more than 1.2 billion people around the world and is a key tool for communications and commerce in many countries. The service was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $19 billion.

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