Facebook Explains What Caused One of Worst Global Outages in Company's History

Posted on AllSides October 5th, 2021
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Facebook issued a statement late Monday explaining what caused the outage across its platforms lasted nearly six hours.

“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,” the statement said. “This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt.”

Facebook indicated that there’s “no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime.”

The outage affected Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp,...

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