Backbone router setup mistake caused worldwide Facebook outage

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/05/2021 09:13 AM | source: | 50 comment(s)

Around 11:50 p.m. CEST on Monday, Facebook's global outage was mostly resolved. After over six hours, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger are back online. The failure was caused by an improper update setting, the company claims.

During the downtime, almost 3.5 billion users lost access to their data. By Monday night, Facebook's services had gradually returned. Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are now working for most. The apps may still be unreliable in the future due to simultaneous connections from several devices. Around 4 a.m., WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart announced on Twitter that everyone could use the service again.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized via Facebook. "Sorry for any inconvenience today, because I know how much you rely on us to keep in touch with the people you care about."

Facebook said the incident occurred while updating its systems. Facebook's router system has a bug that prevented servers from communicating. "We suspect the reason of the outage was a bad configuration," the business claimed. Facebook says it has no indications that data has also been leaked due to the outage. The problems also prevented employees from accessing the internal systems.

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Brasky

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#5951672 Posted on: 10/04/2021 09:01 PM

yes teen girl suicides have gone up 5000%

Don't worry, Instagram released an internal report refuting that. Reminds me of the old tobacco reports where smoking was healthy.

Raserian
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#5951676 Posted on: 10/04/2021 09:19 PM

I hope it won't return.

CrazY_Milojko
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#5951679 Posted on: 10/04/2021 09:27 PM

Are those a tears in my eyes? Yes they are....

...tears of joy

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#5951683 Posted on: 10/04/2021 09:56 PM

Good, Facebook and social media is a cancer on society anyways. Maybe someone will have a conversation with a human and not a screen.

I'm glad. Social media is such a bad thing. I remember being very vocal in my college days about the bad side of social media to humanity. The pandemic has exacerbated those effects to newer levels.

Facebook and social media are not cancer or some evil devices that make the world worse, they are just a reflex of our current society...

And i can say this without any problem because i don´t use any social media, maybe with the exception of Guru3d!

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#5951684 Posted on: 10/04/2021 09:56 PM

I bet they getting hacked, either way facebook is the "blight" for those that get the reference :rolleyes:

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