It said no user data was compromised as a result of the incident.At this stage, absolutely everyone knows what WhatsApp is all about. With communications not working properly the problems cascaded causing outages across the systems. A massive denial-of-service attack that could overwhelm one of the world's most popular sites, on the other hand, would require either coordination among powerful criminal groups or a very innovative technique.įacebook said the outage was caused by a networking issues interrupting communications between data centres. That could be the result of an internal mistake, though sabotage by an insider would be theoretically possible.Īn outside hack was viewed as less likely. Security experts tracking the situation said the outage likely was triggered by a configuration error that left directions to Facebook servers unavailable.

A similar outage at cloud company Akamai took down multiple websites in July. Facebook itself controls the relevant settings.ĭNS allows web addresses to take users to their destinations. It also reported some employees of the social media giant had taken to external email accounts as it's internal email wasn't working.įacebook was inaccessible because users were not being directed to the correct place by the Domain Name System. As part of Facebook, Messenger was also down. Tech site The Verge reported Oculus VR, the company's virtual reality arm, also went offline. That was made more complicated after The New York Times reported the outage had impacted the ability of some employees to access buildings because their badges has stopped working.

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