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Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by bawolff on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:19PM (#28752864)
IANAL but I would assume computer fraud and abuse act:

(5)(a)knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;

Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by xkeysc0re on Monday October 04, 2021 @09:00PM (#28754342)
In the cases cited under the CFAA (such as https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=124545279862007...) it seems the employee deleted data and private info. In this case, no data was deleted or other computing property damaged it just became unreachable.
Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by pwdisswordfish0 on Monday October 04, 2021 @08:02PM (#28753960)
The recent Van Buren decision would make that unlikely.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27389500

Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by ironlion624 on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:22PM (#28752907)
That’s the one.