It went on to say that the root cause of the outage was a "faulty configuration change" and there's no evidence that user data was compromised due to the downtime. This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt." "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. Late into Monday evening, Facebook's engineering team published a blog post that attempted to explain what happened:
He later added it was "a routine BGP update gone wrong." DNS provider Cloudflare also cited BGP as the likely culprit, writing in a blog post that it was "as if someone had 'pulled the cables' from their data centers all at once and disconnected them from the Internet." Security reporter Brian Krebs reported the outage was linked to issues with Facebook's BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) records, which prevented the company's services from being accessible. Elsewhere, the company is still reeling from the fallout of a whistleblower who has accused the company of prioritizing “profits over safety.” The whistleblower was The Wall Street Journal’s primary source for several articles that details how Instagram is harmful to teens and the company’s controversial “cross check” program that allows high profile users to break its rules. It also shaved billions of dollars off of Zuckerberg’s personal net worth as Facebook’s stock tanked, Bloomberg reported. The New York Times reported that employees were also physically locked out of offices as workers’ badges stopped working. It also wreaked havoc on the company internally, with employees reportedly unable to access emails, Workplace and other tools. The outage lasted more than six hours, taking down Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus. By subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy.
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