LONDON/MOSCOW – WhatsApp’s nearly six-hour-long outage on October 4 hit trading of assets from cryptocurrencies to Russian oil, market players said, although a quick shift to alternative platforms such as Telegram limited severe disruption.
Reuters: WhatsApp outage hits trading in assets from crypto to Russian oil
This photo illustration shows the Whatsapp application logo (C) on a smartphone screen in Beijing on Sept. 26, 2017.
Chinese authorities appear to have severely disrupted the WhatsApp messaging app in the latest step to tighten censorship as they prepare for a major Communist Party congress next month.
