Mark Zuckerberg lost over $6Bn in a matter of hours due to an outage that affected Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Facebook’s stocks were down nearly 5% on the day of the outage. Zuckerberg’s net worth dropped to $121.6 billion, placing him at number 5 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He is now ranked just below Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who has a net worth of $124 billion. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are now back online after being down for more than six hours. We believe the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change. We also have no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime, Facebook Statement