The Associated Press reported that it was "rare" for such an outage to be global. However, there is no data as of yet to show that the outage is connected to the recent news. Update 10:30PM ET: Added a statement from Facebook Engineering's blog post.Some Twitter users mentioned that Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp all went down on the day following a "60 Minutes" report about Facebook and Instagram. 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. Thank you for bearing with us.- Facebook October 4, 2021 We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry.
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