“Our services are now back online and we’re actively working to fully return them to regular operations. The company shot down the speculations, saying, This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt.”Īfter the websites and apps went down, a speculation started online about Facebook being hacked and data being compromised. “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. This impacted many of their internal tools and their day-to-day systems, hence affecting their ability to diagnose and resolve the problem. We’ve been working as hard as we can to restore access, and our systems are now back up and running.” Source: Facebook EngineeringĪccording to the company, the outage was caused by a faulty configuration. “To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms. The company apologized to businesses and people around the globe, saying, Moreover, since the other social apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram are also owned by Facebook, they also faced downtime, including their websites.įacebook blames an internal issue for this mess. Social media giant Facebook faced the longest outage that lasted six hours.
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