Facebook Apologizes for Yesterday’s Hours-Long Outage, Says No User Data Was Compromised during Event

[Tsing]

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Yesterday was somewhat of a difficult day for social media addicts, as Facebook and many of its related services (e.g., Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus) were inaccessible for several hours due to network issues. The social media giant has now shared a blog post apologizing for the outage, blaming the disruption on faulty router configuration changes that prevented network traffic from flowing properly between its data centers. This prevented anyone from accessing the company’s services for a lengthy period of time.



As Facebook explains:



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 disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers...

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[Grimlakin]

Wow... glad it wasn't a dns hack. I remember in the late 90s when those were popular. Someone would seed a different dns resolution for a site and just harvest data of people trying to login.

Now it's in the past and fixed for now.

 

[Brian_B]

The world was slightly better for about 6 hours.

 

[Niner51]

Can't say I really missed it much.