Despite the fact that, in various internet technology forums, some users related the fall of Facebook registered this Monday with the sale of this data, there is no reason to give this theory as valid.
First of all, because, as explained above, the hackers used data that was already public and sorted it into databases for sale. Second, because according to the British newspaper Dailymail, the fall of Facebook, the company CloudFare reported that the sudden “disappearance” of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp came after a series of updates.
In this sense, the failures of Facebook and the other social networks could be related to a problem of DNS solvers. DNS protocols allow alphanumeric information that human beings use to access Internet pages, through domains and web addresses, to be transformed into numbers (IP addresses) that computers use.