Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram back after outage // Mark Apologized
Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram back
after outage
Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and
Instagram are back up and running after an outage that lasted almost six hours,
Facebook says.
The company says the cause was a faulty
configuration change.
All three services are owned by Facebook and
could not be accessed over the web or on smartphone apps.
Downdetector, which tracks outages, said it
was the largest failure it had ever seen, with 10.6 million problem reports
around the world.
The services went down at about 16:00 GMT with
users beginning to gain access to the sites at around 22:00.
In a statement on Tuesday,
Facebook said that the faulty configuration change affected the company's
internal tools and systems which complicated attempts to resolve the problem.
It added that there was "no evidence that
user data was compromised as a result of this downtime".
Earlier, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
apologised to those affected by the outage.
Mark
Zuckerberg apologized
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back
online now. Sorry for the disruption today -- I know how much you rely on our
services to stay connected with the people you care about.
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