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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Astyanax
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#5951884 Posted on: 10/05/2021 01:13 PM

Personal Information of More Than 1.5 Billion Facebook Users Sold on Hacker Forum

Have a feeling this has something to do with the FB outage. That they shut it down for security reasons and to investigate the extent of the breach.

nothing to do with the outage.

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#5951887 Posted on: 10/05/2021 01:24 PM

Let us cherish this moment, when life felt normal again, for people who still remember what normal was.

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#5951909 Posted on: 10/05/2021 03:02 PM

I'm not on social media at all. This news means nothing to me - it could all fall into a black hole at the end of time for all I care.

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#5951911 Posted on: 10/05/2021 03:03 PM

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!

Social media like Facebook in and of itself isn't a cancer on society but it's a tool used to spread it. Hate, bigotry, misinformation, conspiracies, manipulation, propaganda, vanity, etc: they've always been there, but things like Facebook not only make it easy to spread, but actually encourage it. Sensationalism pays, but it's also what tears people apart. A lot of terrible people have not only been given a voice but have been given power, thanks to social media.

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#5951917 Posted on: 10/05/2021 03:09 PM

Fun fact: I didn't notice.

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